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System-Theoretical Urban Development The Potsdam Lodestar Approach
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System-Theoretical Urban Development [electronic resource] : The Potsdam Lodestar Approach / by Manfred Rolfes, Jan Lorenz Wilhelm.
ISBN
9783658422509
Edition
1st ed. 2024.
Publication
Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer, 2024.
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1 online resource (XI, 263 p.) 54 illus.
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Summary
In their book, the authors introduce the topic of urban development from a system - theoretical perspective and provide explanatory approaches, tips and methodological instructions for dealing with urban complexity. Knowing full well that this sometimes amounts to squaring the circle, the authors draw on applied systemic approaches and systematically couple these with epistemological trends that are influenced by Luhmann's systems theory. The insight of this theory of social systems represents an ideal starting point for understanding urban development and urban complexity. From this perspective, urban development can be seen as a process in which organizations and individuals are involved with their own expectations and perspectives, where contradictions and conflicts seem inevitable and where the future cannot be clearly predicted. Decisions in cities and municipalities are therefore always associated with risks, irritations and unexpected consequences. With the Potsdam lodestar approach, Rolfes and Wilhelm present a multidimensional approach to managing urban development processes. The approach distinguishes five process dimensions, which are presented chapter by chapter, and linked with recommendations. The individual chapters are structured with guiding questions and feature appealing graphic illustrations and richly diverse bonus content. The authors 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. This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was completed with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent revision by a (human) editor primarily reviewed the content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
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English
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March 01, 2024
Contents
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.
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