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Urban Renewal:
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Make old buildings within city limits (e.g. industrial brownfields) reusable for commerce or production (evasion
of location of production and commercial sites on the city fringes which are
often only accessible by car);
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Quarter-based integrated development concepts (integration
of social and employment aspects in the strategies of urban renewal).
Housing:
Getting ecological orientated high quality living
conditions and an environmental-friendly policy including:
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A balanced management of the soils / terrain, with e.g.
reuse of brownfield areas;
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Town-compatible steering of mobility, e.g. development of
settlements targeting the avoidance of traffic;
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Location-protecting economy stimulation, e.g.
empowerment and development of the existing structure of city centres;
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Supporting a differentiated offer of flats, e.g. offers for
special user-groups / groups of demand (within an overall consolidation of the
housing market);
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Development of settlements that respect the requirements of
the preservation of the countryside.
The component “housing“ has the
aim, to promote those potentials of terrain that have the best qualifications
to become developed. The targets for a sustainable urban development are
the following criteria:
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Infrastructural connection in order to secure a mobility
that ‘respects’ environment (connection to public transport, main road access,
energy/water supply and sewage system);
·
Sustainable usage of terrain for new developments (potential
conflicts with nature and landscape);
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Balanced development with regard to the structure of
settlements to save the existing centre structure;
·
Evaluation of the quality of demands of house buyers and to
the objectives of urban development;
·
Social environment (leisure facilities, employment
opportunities, education facilities).
The application of
this scheme makes it possible to distinguish between the following types of
development space:
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Building areas with priority of development;
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Further building areas with a right-to-build-on;
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Building areas as a long term development reserve;
·
Building areas without any priority of development.
Conclusion
By giving priority to the identified areas of
“building areas with priority of development”, land use becomes more
sustainable. As the categories applied give automatically priority to those
areas which promote the existing urban structure, the priority areas will be
those with less impact on the environment (e. g. the access to public
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