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Emmy Noether Research Project
“The Urban
Renaissance-Potential of Inner-City Rail Station Redevelopment
Mega-Projects”
This multi-year research project, funded via the Emmy
Noether Excellency Program of the German Research Foundation (DFG)
[2], looks at rail station area urban redevelopment mega-projects as
key instances of planned, large-scale strategic interventions into the
contemporary urban fabric aimed at re-connecting and revitalizing key
urban locales. The project analyzes the unique role of major rail
nodes as both "spaces of flow" and "spaces of
place" and evaluates their potential to successfully contribute
to newly emergent normative urban and transport policy goals linked to
an "urban renaissance" agenda. The research is structured
around two major components: For one, the project will develop a
comprehensive inventory database of recent rail station area
redevelopment mega-projects in Europe, North America, Asia and
Australasia. This inventory will form the empirical basis for a
thorough quantitative and qualitative cross-national comparative
analysis and typologization.
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Parallel to this, the work program includes in-depth case study investigations of three high-profile inner-city rail station area redevelopment mega-projects in Berlin, Vienna and Stuttgart, focusing on the complex governance arrangements and the various conflicts and confluences of interest among the various stakeholders.
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