Topics for theses

The Chair of Urban Planning is open to students' own suggestions for topics and is happy to supervise them. The following is a list of possible topics for initial orientation. Further information on academic work at the Chair can be found in our guidelines.

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

  • Innovative methods of strategic and process-oriented urban development planning according to the Leipzig Charter, comparison of urban development concepts
  • Comparison of participation strategies in urban development processes
  • Dynamization of the instrument of land use planning
  • Exhibitions and festivalization as an instrument of urban development, e.g. IBA
  • Consequences of Digitalization for urban development
  • Climate protection concepts as part of urban development planning
  • Climate adaptation concepts as part of urban development planning
  • Governance and administrative structures for sustainable urban development
  • Creative city (according to Laundry)/ creative class (according to Florida) as a concept for urban development
  • Ensuring equal living conditions, the concept of home in urban development
  • Resilient city - health and crisis prevention in urban development
  • Sustainable mobility concepts in urban development, consequences of autonomous driving and electromobility (with Prof. Dr. Wilko Manz)

URBAN TRANSFORMATION

  • Comparison of European urban renewal strategies
  • Urban redevelopment of post-war settlements
  • Concepts for shrinking cities (e.g. Ruhr area, Palatinate, Mecklenburg)
  • Interim uses as a stimulus for brownfield revitalization and retail vacancies
  • Interim evaluation of urban renewal programs
  • Methodology of integrated development concepts in urban development funding
  • Strengthening district centers, retail transformation, location communities
  • Creative industries as a driving force in neighborhood development
  • Urban monument protection as an instrument for preserving old towns
  • The new 3-pillar model of urban development funding
  • Climate protection and climate adaptation as elements of urban renewal
  • Resilience and health in urban renewal

BUILDING CULTURE, PUBLIC SPACE AND MOBILITY

  • Importance of conservation statutes and design statutes for urban design
  • Quality criteria and design rules in urban development (e.g. design councils, competitions)
  • Concepts of critical reconstruction, rebuilding, beauty-oriented city?
  • Design of public space, also with regard to health care
  • Creative use of public space
  • Effects of new mobility concepts on parking and public space
  • Deconstruction of inner-city main roads (reclaiming public space)
  • International examples of public space, e.g. London, Vienna, Hong Kong

HOUSING / HOUSING MODELS / DEMOGRAPHY

  • Housing concepts as part of urban development policy
  • Consequences of demographic change for urban development
  • Exemplary concepts to combat the housing shortage, e.g. Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Mainz
  • Players in neighborhood development: housing industry, municipalities, cooperation, new instruments, e.g. HID
  • Innovative building group models, subdivided urban development
  • Generation-appropriate forms of housing/multi-generational living
  • Neighborhood-based concepts for living in old age

CITY AND CLIMATE / ENERGY / HEALTH

  • Climate-neutral neighborhoods
  • City and sustainability, "smart city"
  • Climate adaptation concepts
  • Linking energy planning and urban development planning
  • Energetic urban redevelopment

PLANNING LAW / PLANNING INSTRUMENTS

  • Urban development contracts as an instrument of urban development
  • Planning objectives of climate protection in planning law
  • Social land use planning
  • Preservation statutes, design statutes
  • New types of land use plans
  • Urban area. Mixed use in neighborhoods
  • IEM inner development measure

 

EXAMPLES FOR BACHELOR THESES:

Framework conditions for vertical redensification - illustrated using the example of the "Alt - Strühlingen" start-up district in Freiburg im Breisgau

Better climate through the green city - The renaissance of urban green in the face of climate change.

Urban planning framework concept Karlsruhe Herrenalber Straße

Informal participation processes - Effects of participation processes on informal planning in urban development using the example of Benjamin Franklin Village City of Mannheim

Necessary reaction of urban planning to different models of autonomous driving using the example of the city of Kaiserslautern

Building in the Zwischenstadt using the example of an inner-city neighborhood in the city of Gersthofen Intercity upgrading of the Zwischenstadt using the example of an inner-city neighborhood in Gesthofen

Need for adaptation of single-family house areas of the post-war period Concept for the urban upgrading of a single-family house area of the 1960s, using the example of Lüdingshausen

Inner-city urban redevelopment through the conversion of railroad land - urban redevelopment concept for the Wilhelmspark railroad brownfield site and the adjacent residential area in Ulm.

New housing models for Luxembourg City Design of a residential area by redesigning the Limpertsberg campus

Autonomous castle traffic in Hambach-Neustadt

Potential of IBA to strengthen the creative city - using the example of IBA Region Stuttgart 2027

Urban planning design for the Fritsch barracks in Koblenz

Neckarstadt-West district development concept

Dealing with noise in urban land-use planning - possibilities for noise reduction in noise-polluted areas using the example of the former goods station in Landau

Heat stress in Wilhelminian-style neighborhoods - strategies for reducing heat stress using the example of the Nauwieser Viertel in Saarbrücken

 

EXAMPLES OF MASTER'S THESES:

Urban renewal as a place to implement resilience and security
- Thesis: Urban renewal is the interface where structural, social and institutional measures meet. Empirical and normative analysis.

Urban security as an underestimated dimension of urban resilience
- Analysis of why security is only a marginal topic in the resilience discourse and development of an expanded concept of resilience.

The concept of cooperative feasibility studies. Use to resolve divergences of interest and the implications of urban development projects - demonstrated using a brownfield development on the former Homburg site.

Strategies for new development districts to promote a social mix

The challenge of an inner-city shopping center Restructuring the central supply area of Kaiserslautern for a lively city center

The urban area - a contribution to the productive city

New methods for climate protection planning - a concept for the further development of the Raum-+Monitor in Rhineland-Palatinate

Works already written

Bachelor thesis

Framework conditions for vertical redensification - illustrated using the example of the "Alt - Strühlingen" start-up district in Freiburg im Breisgau

Better climate through the green city - The race for urban greenery in the face of climate change using the example of....

Urban planning framework concept Karlsruhe Herrenalber Straße

Informal participation processes - Effects of participation processes on informal planning in urban development using the example of Benjamin Franklin Village City of Mannheim

Necessary reaction of urban planning to different models of autonomous driving using the example of the city of Kaiserslautern

Building in the Zwischenstadt using the example of an inner-city neighborhood in the city of Gersthofen Intercity upgrading of the Zwischenstadt using the example of an inner-city neighborhood in Gesthofen

Need for adaptation of single-family housing estates of the post-war period Concept for the urban upgrading of a single-family housing estate of the 1960s, using the example of Lödingshausen

Inner-city urban redevelopment through the conversion of railroad land - urban redevelopment concept for the Wilhelmspark railroad wasteland and the adjacent residential area in Ulm.

Inner-city urban redevelopment through the conversion of railroad land - urban redevelopment concept for the Wilhelmspark brownfield site and the adjacent residential quarter in Ulm.

New housing models for Luxembourg City Design of a residential area by redesigning the Limpertsberg campus

Autonomous castle traffic in Hambach-Neustadt

Potential of IBA to strengthen the creative city - using the example of IBA Region Stuttgart 2027

Urban planning design for the Fritsch barracks in Koblenz

Neckarstadt-West district development concept

Dealing with noise in urban land-use planning-possibilities for noise reduction in noise-polluted areas using the example of the former goods station in Landau

Heat stress in Wilhelminian-style neighborhoods - strategies for reducing heat stress using the example of the Nauwieser Viertel in Saarbrücken

The urban development measure - an instrument against the housing shortage?

Investigation using the example of the city of Landau in der Pfalz

Socially and functionally mixed urban quarter - urban planning design for the Bahnstadt Süd/Münster conversion area

Design Lerchenauer Feld Munich

Image and identity in the city...

Urban development and mobility. Development of a sustainable mobility concept for the city of Neustadt an der Weinstraße

Green engine for urban development.

Good urban governance; implementation of participatory urban development planning using the example of the city of Ludwigsburg

Formal urban design of the post-crystalline modern era - design statutes as an instrument of urban design using the example of Eisenbahnstraße Kaiserslautern

International Building Exhibitions as a catalyst for mix and density - design of a model district in Vaihinge/Enz for the IBA in Stuttgart 2027

Sustainability in housing and urban development. Development of criteria for the sustainable development of new-build neighborhoods using the example of the former Spiegelfabrik factory site in Mannheim

Sustainability in housing and urban development. Development of criteria for the sustainable development of new-build districts using the example of the former Spiegelfabrik factory site in Mannheim

Vision of an urban suburban location-densified living on the former Fritsch barracks

Frankfurt "Am Römerhof": Revitalization of public space in a residential area with few cars

Climate-adapted neighborhood; the Starkenburg barracks in Darmstadt as an example

On the way to a resilient city center - a city center development concept for Kaiserslautern

Urban production - an opportunity for Ludwigshafen's city center?

The contemporary application of the future workshop

Equitable use of street space-Current challenges and strategies for the creation of high-quality public spaces through mobility transition and climate adaptation

The future of international building exhibitions-Development of recommendations for the further development of international building exhibitions

"Evaluation of urban development funding for the city of Saarbrücken - "Central city center" urban redevelopment area"

Safety in public spaces - fear spaces and their potential dangers in urban areas

Effects of new mobility concepts on public spaces

Creative districts as an opportunity for urban development using the example of the goods station in Pirmasens

Mannheim-Vogelstang district development concept with a focused look at local demographic developments and the resulting challenges for the satellite town

Digitization strategies in integrated urban development concepts-A guideline for digital transformation in large cities

 

Master's theses

The concept of the cooperative feasibility study: approach to solving divergences of interest and the implication of urban development projects - demonstrated using a brownfield development on the former site in Homburg.

Strategies for new development districts to promote a social mix

The challenge of an inner-city shopping center Restructuring the central supply area of Kaiserslautern for a lively city center

The urban area - A contribution to the productive city

New methods for climate protection planning - A concept for the further development of the Raum-+Monitor in Rhineland-Palatinate

Inner-city retail in medium-sized towns; strategies to strengthen the retail location Neustadt an der Weinstraße

Dense building structures in urban neighborhoods as instruments for creating living space and preserving green spaces

Development of conversion areas in theory and practice

Housing supply in growth areas - development of a concept of measures to meet housing needs in Ludwigshafen am Rhein

Typologies of external development using the design example of the Illerpark II residential quarter

Dense = dense? Urban development concept "Density" Esch/Alzette /Luxembourg

Development of a climate-friendly urban quarter with the field of action "heat" in urban areas

Climate adaptation as a new challenge in urban development funding; guidelines for integrating climate adaptation into urban renewal using the example of the city of Witten

Climate adaptation as a new challenge in urban development funding; guidelines for integrating climate adaptation into urban renewal using the example of the city of Witten

Sector coupling as a key element of smart urban renewal - integration of intelligent power-to-mobility solutions using the example of the Betzenberg residential district in Kaiserslautern

Development strategies and future prospects for inner-city structural change; concept for the development of Ulm's western city center.

Urban resilience in urban development - approaches to an integrated implementation of resilience aspects in the planning of a new development area using the example of the Bergische Kaserne in Düsseldorf-Hubbelrath

Sustainable development of campus universities - urban planning design for the compatibility of structural densification while preserving qualitative open spaces in the new center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Reclaiming and qualifying the social living space in the growing urban center by means of a concept for public spaces in the Rhineland-Palatinate LHS Mainz with special consideration of the urban mobility turnaround

Urban planning design: Klönne-Areal Dortmund

Critical infrastructures in urban land-use planning

Inner development in the stadium environment Development potential at the Fritz Walter Stadium in Kaiserslautern

Climate adaptation in urban development-Development of a heat-resilient urban quarter between Heidelberg Bahnstadt and Paffengrund

The productive city as a contribution to urban resilience

Low-car neighborhoods as an approach to realization