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Urban Planning Aspects of the Resilient City

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European Cities After COVID-19

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The article considers issues in European cities that have been raised by the COVID-19 pandemic and those that have already been identified for quite some time. The pandemic is used as a trigger and catalyst to reflect on central fields in urban planning—city centres and retail, housing, working and living in neighbourhoods, public places and social areas outside the immediate living environment, the transformation of transportation and changed urban mobility as well as the readjustment of spatial planning—with a description of the status quo as well as approaches for improvement by different stakeholders. In conclusion, the concept of sustainable urban development is discussed, which can lead to resilient and resistant cities. The New Leipzig Charter on the transformative power of cities for the common good, adopted in 2020, is presented as a relevant political-strategic framework and the corresponding fields of action, their challenges and potentials are elaborated.

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    Several cities have their own specifically defined benchmarks: Munich, for example with 20 m2 of public green space per inhabitant and 10 m2 of private green space per inhabitant (including 2 m2 on the roof) or Nuremberg with 20 m2 per inhabitant in multi-storey residential buildings; there are (as yet) no nationwide guidelines or reference values.

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Weidner, S. (2022). Urban Planning Aspects of the Resilient City. In: Just, T., Plößl, F. (eds) European Cities After COVID-19. Future of Business and Finance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89788-8_2

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