Astrid Ley

• Professor
• University of Stuttgart

Researchers highlight that one significant intrinsic motivation for taking part in co-creations is a sense of place. Vice versa, some scholars indicate an enhanced sense of place can be achieved through community participatory strategies and place-making. However, there is a noticeable absence of empirical investigations into this seemingly recipro...

There is a growing interest in the field of sense of place research due to its influence on community participation. However, this area faces primary limitations characterized by terminological and conceptual ambiguity and challenges related to empirical operationalization. This paper aims to explore the dynamics of sense of place among the members...

Co-creation has been embraced as a new participatory strategy for place-making. The reasons behind the agency that gets public participation for co-creation are not yet explored, but some research indicates sense of place is an intrinsic motivation for participation. Thus, this paper systematically explores whether the prevailing literature has rev...

Collaborative planning is emerging as a novel approach to stakeholder participation, to create new values and products within urban planning. However, the motivations behind participating in the planning process have been limitedly addressed. Fainstein, Healey, Forester, and many planning theorists argue the necessity of public participation in urb...

This study aims to explore the sense of place of people who are members of Crow Island Beach Park Management Society (a Community-Based Organization). These people volunteer to co-create a recreational place in Crow Island, Sri Lanka. Contemporary academics and policy analysts contend that place-making is most effective when it is built on collabor...

Urban experimentation is increasingly seen as a means to facilitate (social) innovation and to promote sustainability transitions. However, whether and how novel approaches developed in local experiments get adopted and contribute to changes in the municipal planning practice has been insufficiently investigated and theorized. This article develops...

The need for a systemic transformation of the building sector is increasingly recognized, but much of the current discussion and actions focus on the creation of technical innovation, while the question of how to improve the social quality of buildings and building processes is largely ignored. Socially engaged architecture more broadly and design-...

Climate projections indicate that persistent high temperatures and related heat stress will become a common experience in the future, across Africa. It is, therefore, important to understand challenges that might result from increasing extreme heat conditions, and how humans within urban centres can adapt. In this article, we provide a review that...

Residential mobility in a Sub-Saharan African (SSA) context is substantially different from in the Global North. This paper provides three position statements to substantiate this claim. The first relates to residential mobility dynamics and posits that in SSA they are characterized by a much more transient and mobile population who frequently move...

In its report ‚Humanity on the move: Unlocking the transformative power of cities‘ (2016), the WBGU examines the transformation of cities towards sustainability. Research has a key role to play in this context, for urban transformation is a societal learning and search process. To give this societal process orientation, the WBGU has developed a ‘no...

Real-world laboratories are a new and innovative way of conducting transdisciplinary research financed by the state of Baden-Wurttemberg in Germany. The case of CASA Schutzenplatz in Stuttgart, Germany, illustrated here, positions itself within the discourse on transformative science for sustainability, arguing that in order to tackle environmental...

Mit der Energiewende sind neue Anforderungen an die bestehende Energieinfrastruktur verbunden. Daraus stellt sich die Frage, ob derzeitige Infrastruktureinrichtungen in der neuen Energiewelt Flächenin Anspruchnehmen. Entsprechend könnten freiwerdende Flächen anderen Verwendungen zugeführt werden. Dabei bewirkt die Energiewende nicht nur eine Neukon...

The great transformation to climate-neutral cites in Europe, though often called for and widely advocated, is yet to come. This TATuP special topic underscores the necessity of integrative approaches that combine smart and intelligent urban technologies with socio-cultural innovations to open up paths towards urban climate neutrality. Edited by Cor...

Smart urban futures are currently being tested and promoted in Europe using innovative and intelligent urban technologies at different spatial scales, in individual sectors such as energy or transport, or by using specific technological innovations. However, the great transformation, though often called for and widely advocated, is yet to come. Thi...

The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the...

The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the...

The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the...

The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the...

The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the...

The challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the...

This paper addresses the persistent challenges in housing the urban poor in Bangladesh. In particular, it explores the empirical evidence on informal networks of the urban poor as they relate to service provision in low-income settlements of Khulna City. It also analyses the emerging forms of urban governance in low-income urban settlements. Specif...

Research on community resilience has historically focused strongly on the local features of communities which in support of and display resilient behaviour in times of stress and in the face of a range of shocks. However, the argument presented in this paper is that both prior organisation — often within the realm of public space belonging to a com...

Zusammenfassung Für den Kontext gesellschaftspolitisch-planerischer Partizipationsprozesse gibt es einen großen Erfahrungsschatz mit Blick auf Ziele, zu beteiligende Akteure, Instrumente, Abläufe und Erfolgsfaktoren. Im Beitrag wird diskutiert, welche Hinweise sich daraus gewinnen lassen für eine zielführende und qualitative Gestaltung von Partizip...

Reallabore sind ein recht junges Forschungsformat. Die Betreiber der bestehenden Reallabore in Baden-Württemberg ( BaWü-Labs ) nutzen ihre Erkenntnisse und geben neun Empfehlungen für die Fortführung von Reallaboren.

The importance of critical infrastructures and strategic planning in the context of extreme events, climate change and urbanization has been underscored recently in international policy frameworks, such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (UNISDR (United Nations/International Strat...

The 5th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) makes it unmistakeably clear: unacceptable climatic consequences, which are likely to escalate beyond the 2°C guard rail, can only be avoided if further increases in greenhouse-gas concentrations are halted as soon as possible. The WBGU therefore recommends reducing C...

The year 2015 has special importance for the transformation towards sustainable ­development. New Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are then supposed to ­replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The aim is to offer a new orientation for political action in the coming decades. The WBGU recommends orienting the new catalogue of goals towar...

Sports mega events increasingly take place in the metropolises of emerging economies. As a city-marketing tool, these events are said to make the host cities more visible in the international competition for foreign and domestic investments. Infrastructural upgrades and fast tracking of urban development projects, as well as giving focus and legiti...

Thema dieser Arbeit ist die Interaktionsdynamik zwischen zivilgesellschaftlichen und staatlichen Akteuren in der Wohnungsversorgung für einkommensschwache Haushalte in Südafrika. Die Arbeit basiert auf der Annahme, dass durch die Hinwendung zum partizipativen Wohnungsbau neue Be-teiligungs¬räume entstehen und dass zivilgesellschaftliche Organisatio...