Category: regional development planning
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TU Wien: Nature Based and Digital Solutions for Future Spatial Planning and Design
During the summer semester 2025, TU Wien’s Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Institute of Spatial Planning, offered an innovative course entitled Digital Twins in the Context of Renaturation: Nature-Based and Digital Solutions for Spatial Planning. The seminar, led by visiting professor Fabian Dembski, explored how digital technologies can be combined with ecological approaches to address…
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Visiting Professorship at TU Wien
What are ‘digital twins’ and how can they support spatial planning and architecture? What tools and methods can we apply in this context to develop ‘nature-based and digital solutions’ and strategies for climate-resilient cities and regions, and how can we use these for collaborative approaches and more democratic processes? In the seminar “Digital Twins in…
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Nature Based Solutions (NBS) in Central Tallinn
The research project ‘URBREATH’, funded by the European Union, started at the beginning of 2024 with the aim of implementing Nature Based Solutions (NBS) in urban areas to improve the resilience of cities and increase the quality of local life. The Academy of Architecture and Urban Studies at the Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) is…
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Has Digitalisation Not Been Given Enough Attention in Planning?
ChatGPT triggered a highly emotional debate on the topic of artificial intelligence, its opportunities and risks and digitalisation in general. Addressing the topic was long overdue and particularly necessary in urban planning: For too long, developments were ignored, rejected or slept through, while tech companies began to acquire planners’ skills in the shadow of “smart…
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GreenTwins Project Successfully Completed
The GreenTwins large pilot project was completed with great success at the end of August. GreenTwins developed digital participatory tools and processes and a dynamic green layer for Tallinn’s digital twin. The applications and tools developed in the project are used, for example, by the City of Tallinn, the European Green Capital of 2023. To…
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Supercomputing: Risk and Complexity in Planning
Can planning in Germany still keep up with its traditional instruments and tools in the current world of rapid change? There is great need for action in view of ever faster innovation cycles, global dynamics, conflicts and needs, which planning practice lags behind. Potential dangers are increased by extensive land consumption, resulting sealing, the conflict…
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Recent Publications
We used the past months to publish some of our current research topics and results that deal with the effects and chances of the digital transformation, the transport and energy transition on urban and regional development. They all have the application of digital tools in common – for example digital twins – as well as…
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The Digital Twin
At the eCAADe+SIGRaDi 2019 conference in Porto we presented the Digital Twin of a German small town – a prototype for future evidence-based planning and urban design including collaborative and participatory processes. For the built environment’s transformation we are confronted with complex dynamics connected to economic, ecologic and demographic change (Czerkauer-Yamu et al., 2013; Yamu, 2014).…
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Publication: Shaping Urban Change using Digital Tools
Digital tools offer great potential for cities and municipalities for developing and planning habitats geared towards actual peoples needs. The project Reallabor Stadt:Quartiere 4.0 (Living Labs Urban:Quarters 4.0) focussed on the impacts of the digital transformation on urban habitats and how digital instruments can be implemented in planning and decision processes. The new publication “Wandel…
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Symposium 28–29 May: Urban Systems / Global Challenges / Digital Tools
Large-scale digitalization throughout different sectors of society and the economy serves as one of the major disruptive technological trends of our time. In addition to the digital transformation, we must better understand and shape technology’s role in our personal and working lives. Indeed, how these digital transformations impact cities and urban life is still not…
Fabian Dembski 