Forschung Research
Semester Semester seit WS 2011/12 Verfasser Author Andreas Schmitt, Andy Westner, Simon Kettel, Benjamin Ruß Kooperation Cooperation TU Delft Chair for Climate Design and Sustainability, Chair for Policy, Organisation, Law & Gaming ETH Zürich Chair for Architecture and Urban Design TUM, Lehrstuhl für Raumentwicklung Chair of Urban Development TUM, Fachgebiet für Siedlungsstruktur- und Verkehrsplanung Department of Urban Structure and Transport Planning
Better Airport Regions In recent literature on airports, embedding the airport in the urban context of the airport region is stressed as crucial success factor for both airport and regional development. While in statistics evidence can be found these interdependencies of specific local factors of the urban regional environment and airport business activities, it is very difficult to systematically break it down to typical patterns, specific elements, processes or policies. It is most evident that the spatial structure of airports and the airport region has been strongly informed by the change of technological standards or urban economic development aspects as well as specific territorial context, economic or juridical constraints, social aspects expressed in a series of plans and regulations developed over generations. When the boundaries of the airport development and the surrounding urban fabric grow closer, debate on existing conflicts and future development options gets more aggressive. Facing new challenges, like the necessity for more sustainable energy and mobility concepts or ever growing public discussion on the legitimacy of airport operations the established airport development strategies are called into question. Indeed, many airports in Europe follow a variety of innovative strategic projects to become more sustainable on the base of an integrated urban regional development approach. First results of the TUM Better Airport Regions reference case studies in Europe show, that from the differing contextual framework a diversity of approaches towards the “Better Airport Region” can be developed. The nature of projects possible and pathways to the implementation of plans, indeed depend from the specific contextual conditions. The projects reviewed range from integrated solutions in waste, water, energy and especially heat management or collaborative provision of new urban and airport facilities and services to cooperative projects in ecological compensation and development of green space in the densely urbanized regions. After first research phase, aiming at a synoptical review of of better practise approaches in a series of European case study regions, TUM now expands into the following foci: • From the first observations three thematic fields were identified as key for the successful development of the Better Airport Region: “infrastructure”, ”landscape” and “production”. While the first one is sufficiently mirrored in planning processes, the interdependency of latter two and the development potentials in the airport region is insufficiently investigated. The project aims at forming a matrix, which in a series of factsheets describes possible approaches and projects for spatial transformation in the airport region. • “Better airport regions” forms a concept which is built up a consensual idea of what the term “better” means. While in the light of a more sustainable spatial development some aspects like “greener” solutions might be regarded as common sense, the business models followed by the airport operator or the sustainability concepts pursued by public authorities might differ substantially, pointing towards very different directions of development. For judging whether joint action can be agreed upon or whether projects can be regarded as successful, the term better needs a clearer understanding of the normative conception, which is key for successfully linking between solutions in technology and societal acceptance and by this creating a productive climate for taking joint action in sustainable transformation of the airport regions.
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Nachhaltige Entwicklung von Stadt und Land Sustainable Urbanism