System-Theoretical Urban Development

lt;p>Dr. Manfred Rolfes is Professor of Applied Human Geography and Regional Science at the University of Potsdam.

Dr. Jan Lorenz Wilhelm is a systemic coach and systemic consultant and works as a research assistant at the Institute for Environmental Sciences and Geography at the University of Potsdam.

Introduction.- Urban development and urban complexity.- Urban development.- Task areas of cities and municipalities.- New tasks and communication structures (in) the municipality.- Challenges and problem orientation of politics and administration in the municipality.- Overall social trends and urban development.- Complexity in urban development.- Conclusions.- System(theoret)ic approaches in urban development: development history, perspective and basic positions.- The systemic approach and its system-theoretical background.- System-theoretical insights and core ideas.- Development history of the systemic approach.- City and urban development from a more theorizing perspective.- City and urban development from a more application-oriented perspective.- Self-understanding and basic positions of system(theoret)ic approaches in urban development. City from a systems (theoretical) perspective.- City and urban development from a more theoretical perspective.- City and urban development from a more applied perspective.- Self-conception and basic positions of systems (theoretical) interventions in dealing with urban complexity.- Self-conception.- Four basic positions.- Concluding remarks.- Introduction to the Potsdam lodestar approach.- Starting points and emergence of the Potsdam lodestar approach.- Basic structure of the Potsdam lodestar approach.- Dealing with the lodestar approach and structure of the sections.- Process dimension of control - Art of mediation and negotiation.- What is control? Between optimism and scepticism.- Forms of control: Self-control and contextual control.- Forms of control in urban development practice: knowledge is power.- Recommendations for practice: the guiding principle of soft control.- Control through boundary planning: fields of action, phase models and architecture.- Control through knowledge: Discursive practices, questions and explicitation.- Steering through relationship: trust, appreciation and role clarification.- Concluding remarks.- Process dimension alignment - establishing a future perspective.- The problem with the problem.- On the importance and risk of imagining the future.- Recommendations for practice: concern clarification, vision work and strategy work as three directional fields of work.- Concern clarification - looking ahead from the beginning!.- Vision work - the development of future.- Strategy work - operationalising the path to the future and keeping an eye on it!.- Concluding remarks.- Process dimension of system analysis - creating common hypotheses of reality.- The great importance of analyses and scientific expertises.- Gaining knowledge - expertises for illuminating "new facts".- Legitimation - expertises for the assertive presentation of "known facts".- On the opportunities and limits of spatial analyses.- Stabilizing functions of spatial approaches and analyses.- Risks of spatial observation and analysis.- Communicability of expert knowledge and analysis results.- Challenges of analytical and expert-generated knowledge.- The art of connectivity.- Recommendations for practice: the three-dimensional spatial system analysis.- Analysis of the process and network level.- Spatial and subject-specific analyses.- Reflection on the analysis findings.- Concluding remarks.- Process dimension of cooperation - Participants and bridging system boundaries.- Participants in the urban cooperation network: organizations, persons, networks.- Organizations - departments.- Interaction systems and persons.- Co-irritation, cooperation, co-evolution of participants.- Networks for bridging sense and system boundaries.- Citizen involvement and participation.- Your opinion matters to us! Really?.- Explanation of terms: Participation - Participation.- Target groups and their activation.- Modes of urban cooperation.- Conflictual cooperation as a multifaceted everyday occurrence.- Systems-theoretical approach to conflicts.- The factual, social, temporal and spatial dimensions of conflicts.- Typifications of conflicts.- Recommendations for practice: conflict management and participation design.- Dealing with conflicts: between moderation and mediation.- Contextualisation as a framework condition for successful participation.- Concluding remarks.- Process dinebsion reflection - Establishing evaluation-based learning cultures.- Reflective urban development: genesis of a trend.- Three discourses in the background.- Demanded expansion of reflexivity and learning.- Evaluation, learning and reflection in urban development.- Evaluations as planned reflexive observation.- Learning urban development through evaluations?.- Evaluations without guarantee of learning.- The steering function and symbolizing function of evaluation.- The political steering function of evaluation.- Symbolizing learning and reflection through evaluation.- Recommendations for practice: the six decision fields of an evaluation project.- Reflection on the "why" of the evaluation.- Agreement on the design of the evaluation.- Clarification of expectations of the object of evaluation.- Valid observation of the object of evaluation.- Transparent assessment of the object of evaluation.- Organisation of the communication of evaluation results.- Concluding remarks.- Conclusion.