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Department of Spatial Planning
Completed research projects

Zukunft-Stadt-Region-Ruhr (ZUKUR)

Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Duration: 01.07.2017 – 01.07.2020

The overall objective of ZUKUR was to reduce socio-ecological inequalities and to increase climate resilience in regions, its cities and its neighborhoods. The applied approach should be transferable to other urban-regional contexts.

A key approach was to identify and reduce barriers between long-term urban development policy goals for adaptation to ecological, social and economic challenges and the existing spatial, urban development and institutional structures in the Ruhr urban region. ZUKUR relied on an analytical basis that identified existing and future challenges in the Ruhr region and at the same time added value to the state of research on resilience and environmental justice. In this light, reflexive adaptation capacities and strategic moments are to be developed and translated into concrete goals and measures. In doing so, the topics of climate resilience, urban community, integration as well as the cross-cutting area of governance will be addressed at each of the levels. The versatile thematic orientation of the project is made possible by the comprehensive commitment of the Faculty of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University. The living laboratories thereby provide innovations for a further development of the status quo over the entire project period.

ZUKUR-Poster

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