Acknowledgement	6
	Contents	7
	Urban and Regional Resilience – A New Catchwordor a Consistent Concept for Research andPractice?	14
	Resilience – Understanding Better How to Deal with Change?	14
	Resilience – More than just a Dazzling Term?	16
	Dealing with Change in Germany – Steps towards MoreResilience?	19
	References	23
	Urban Resilience and New Institutional Theory –A Happy Couple for Urban and Regional Studies?	27
	1. Understanding Differences in Response to Urban Change	27
	2. Understandings of Resilience	28
	3. Urban Governance, New Institutionalism, and UrbanResilience	30
	4. Urban Areas as Complex Adaptive Systems	31
	5. Conclusions	33
	References	35
	Given the Complexity of Large Cities, Can UrbanResilience be Attained at All?	37
	1. Introduction	37
	2. Complexity of Large Cities	37
	2.1 Characteristics of Complex Cities	37
	2.2 Two Examples: Hamburg and Istanbul	38
	3. Urban Resilience against the Background of variousConcepts of Resilience	39
	4. Urban Resilience in Complex Large Cities	40
	5. Conclusion and Outlook	42
	References	44
	Rebuild the City! Towards Resource-efficient UrbanStructures through the Use of Energy Concepts,Adaptation to Climate Change, and Land UseManagement	46
	1. The Challenge of Resource-efficient Urban Development	46
	2. Energy-efficient Urban Development and Renewal	49
	3. Urban Development Adapted to Climate Change	51
	4. Resource-efficient Land Use Management with SiteRecycling Management	54
	5. Conclusion	56
	References	58
	Urban Restructuring – Making ‘More’ from ‘Less’	60
	1. Restructuring of Cities – A Long-term Task	60
	1.1 Rescuing the Older Neighborhoods – An Urban DevelopmentChallenge in East and West	60
	1.2 Urban Restructuring in the New Federal States – Demolition andEnhancing Neighborhoods as a Dual Strategy	61
	1.3 Urban Restructuring in the Old Federal States – From UrbanRenewal to Urban Restructuring	61
	1.4 Pilot Projects in Western Germany – A Reflection of Industries ina Global Crisis	62
	1.5 New Challenges for Eastern and Western Germany	63
	2. Interim Use	63
	2.1 Interim Use as a Planning Strategy	63
	2.2 Diversity of Sites and of Types of Interim Uses	64
	2.3 Obstacles and Limitations to Interim Uses	65
	3. Renaturation	65
	3.1 Renaturation as a Forward Strategy	65
	3.2 Revision of Traditional Patterns of Thinking	66
	3.3 Renaturation as a Logical Response to Shrinking	67
	3.4 Renaturation – With Tenacity and a Strategic Concept	67
	4. Conclusion	68
	References	69
	Accomodating Creative Knowledge Workers?Empirical Evidence from Metropoles in Central andEastern Europe	70
	1. Challenging the Creative Paradigm in Central and EasternEuropean Metropoles – An Outline	70
	2. Definitions and Theoretical Assumptions	70
	2.1 Defining Creative Industries	71
	2.2 Creativity and its Pitfalls	71
	2.3 The Geographies and Localities of the Creative Industries	72
	3. Central and Eastern European Metropolitan Areas inTransition: Converging and Diverging Developments inRiga, Budapest, Poznan, and Leipzig	73
	4. The Location Decisions of Creative and KnowledgeWorkers: Survey Results	74
	5. Accommodating Creative Knowledge Workers? ConcludingStatements	76
	References	78
	A Strategy for Dealing with Change: RegionalDevelopment in Switzerland in the Context ofSocial Capital	80
	1. Introduction	80
	2. The Implementation of Sustainability	81
	3. Social Learning as a Tool	83
	4. Learning Regions as a Path for Dealing with Change	84
	5. An Empirical Survey of the Swiss Case	85
	6. Conclusion	87
	References	88
	Path Dependency and Resilience – The Example ofLandscape Regions	90
	1. Problem Statement	90
	2. The Benefit of Linking Path Dependency and Resilience	90
	2.1 The Epistemic Value of Theoretical Approaches to PathDependency	90
	2.2 Investigating the Relationship between Path Dependency andResilience	92
	3. Landscape Regions as an Example	93
	3.1 The Effects of Physical and Institutional Path Dependencies onthe Resilience of the Oderbruch as a Polder Landscape	94
	3.2 The Social Construction of Resilience Using the Example ofAttempts to Correct the Development Path in the Barnim Region	95
	4. A Comparative Interpretation and Conclusion	96
	References	98
	Resilience and Resistance of Buildings and BuiltStructures to Flood Impacts – Approaches toAnalysis and Evaluation	100
	1. Introduction	100
	2. Overall Methodology	101
	2.1 The Vulnerability of Building Types	101
	2.2 The Vulnerability Analysis Approach	102
	3. Vulnerability Mitigation Measures	104
	3.1 The Classification and Description of Measures	104
	3.2 The Selection, Ex-ante Analysis, and Comparison of Measures	106
	4. The Evaluation of Vulnerability Mitigation Measures	107
	5. Conclusions	109
	References	110
	Planning for Risk Reduction and Organizing forResilience in the Context of Natural Hazards	112
	1. Introduction	112
	2. Comparing Planning for Risk Reduction and Organizing forResilience in Groups	113
	3. Planning for Risk Reduction and Organizing for Resiliencein Organizations	118
	4. Conclusion	120
	References	121
	Vulnerability and Resilience: A Topic for SpatialResearch from a Social Science Perspective	123
	1. Introduction	123
	2. Vulnerability and Resilience as a Pair of Terms	124
	3. Content-related Focus and Research Questions from thePerspective of Social Science-based Spatial Research	125
	4. Outlook	128
	References	129
	Adaptability of Regional Planning in LowerSaxony to Climate Change	130
	1. Climate Change – Dealing with Uncertainty as a Task forSpatial Planning	130
	2. Adapting to Climate Change – Possibilities and Limitationsof Regional Planning in Lower Saxony	131
	3. Adapting to Climate Change – The Necessity of IntegratedApproaches	132
	References	134
	Dealing with Climate Change – The Opportunitiesand Conflicts of Integrating Mitigation andAdaptation	135
	1. Introduction	135
	2. Examples of Synergies and Conflicts	136
	3. Conclusions	137
	Regional Climate Adaptation Research – TheImplementation of an Integrative RegionalApproach in the Dresden Model Region	138
	1. The Necessity of Regional Climate Adaptation Research	138
	2. REGKLAM – An Integrated Regional Project ConcerningAdaptation to Climate Change	139
	3. REGKLAM – Work in a Regional Network	141
	References	143
	River Landscapes – Reference Areas for RegionallySpecific Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change	144
	1. Introduction	144
	2. Linking Precautionary Flood Protection and PreventingLow Water Levels with the Development of RegionalCultural Landscapes	144
	3. Experiences from Regional Case Studies in Germany	145
	4. Climate Change as a Long-term Challenge for Spatial Planningand Water Management – Recommendations	147
	References	148
	Strategic Planning – Approaches to Coping withthe Crisis of Shrinking Cities	149
	1. The Crisis of Shrinking Cites in Eastern Germany	149
	2. Wanted: Strategies for Coping with Structural Change	149
	3. Empirical Results in Five Medium-sized Eastern GermanCities	150
	3.1 Long-term and City-wide Visions of Development	150
	3.2 Short-term and Area-based Projects	151
	3.3 Cooperation among Actors and Modes of Governance	152
	Typologies of the Built Environment and theExample of Urban Vulnerability Assessment	153
	1. Theoretical Considerations	153
	2. An Example	155
	References	156
	Appendix List of Authors	157
	Andreas Blum	157
	Joachim Burdack	157
	Sonja Deppisch	157
	Fabian Dosch	158
	Sebastian Ebert	158
	Susen Fischer	158
	Enke Franck	158
	Manfred Fuhrich	159
	Ludger Gailing	159
	Evi Goderbauer	159
	Sebastian Golz	160
	Karin Gruhler	160
	Gérard Hutter	160
	Heiderose Kilper	161
	Manfred Kühn	161
	Thilo Lang	161
	Bastian Lange	162
	Bernhard Müller	162
	Thomas Naumann	162
	Johannes Nikolowski	163
	Alfred Olfert	163
	Jana Planek	163
	Lars Porsche	163
	Andreas Röhring	164
	Mareike Schaerffer	164
	Reinhard Schinke	164
	Stephan Schmidt	165
	Frank Sondershaus	165
	Torsten Thurmann	165
	Andreas Vetter	166
	Appendix Portrait of the Editors’ Institutions	167
	Academy for Spatial Research and Planning (ARL)	167
	Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs andSpatial Development (BBSR)	167
	Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography (IfL)	168
	Leibniz Institute of Ecological and Regional Development(IOER)	168
	Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and StructuralPlanning (IRS)	169