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Author: Maximilian Schneider M.Ed., RPTU Kaiserslautern
Abstract:
Patterns and processes of resilience and vulnerability are playing out in a complex setting of political, socioeconomical and cultural aspects, sett on differing time scales and spaces (Gothram and Campanella, 2011). Large-sclae traumas or crises like Hurricaine Katrina or unprecedented flooding of river valleys like the flood oft he Ahr valley in Germany in July 2021 have far-raching effects on social structures, political decisions, planning cultures and economic situation both within the regions affected as well as further afield.
It is thusly within reason to question, if and how spaces that have been affected by such trauma are feasible as experimental spaces for socioeconomical transformation. Pallagst (2021) defines planning cultures as integral part of national planning systems, thus providing the basis for the hypothesis, that in light of transformational changes, crisis-impacted spaces are fertile ground for comparative research into planning cultures and their evolution when facing crisis shocks. By comparing planning cultures between different regions, changes to cultures in light of crisis impact can be made apparent and innovation in planning practices can be made visible.
This submission is part of a project on comparative research of governance-arrangements in different planning cultures within chosen regions impacted by comparable crises. In this case the flood of the River Ahr in Rhineland-Palantine in July of 2021 gave motion to the idea of comparing planning cultures across borders, for which the pairing oft he river basin of the river Dee in Scotland has been chosen, who itself also was impacted by strong floods in the recent past. By comparing two differing planning cultures impacted by the same crisis, we can agin insight into development paths and evolution of governance-structuring pertaining spatial planning in water-shaped rural middle-mountain regions in Germany as well as abroad, both in the structure and potential for optimization of governance-structures as well as in ways of flood monitoring and prevention with a focus placed on the SUDS-System (D’Arcy, 2013).
By analyzing transformation pathways and governance-structures, we can gain insight into how to build and shape more efficient and resilient planning structures for transformation spaces, especially in light of climate change and future insecurities.
Sources:
Pallagst, K., R. Fleschurz und T. Uemura. 2021a. “Comparing Planning Cultures in Shrinking Cities Across the USA, Germany, and Japan: Perspectives from Urban Planning on the Refiguration of Spaces and Cross-Cultural Comparison.” FQS – Forum Qualitative Social Research, Vol. 22 No.3: Art. 17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17169/fqs-22.3.3793
Gotham, K. F. und R. Campanella. 2011. “Coupled vulnerability and resilience: the dynamics of cross-scale interactions in post-Katrina New Orleans”. Ecology and Society 16(3): S. 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04292-160312
D’Arcy, Brian J.: Managing Stormwater: From aspirations to routine business, 29.10.2023, in: Bd. 154 Nr. Special 1 (2013): gwf - Wasser|Abwasser Special 1 2013
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