CircularGreenSimCity
Client: Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences
Duration: Juni 2024- October 2024
Background
The research project EnEff:Stadt: CircularGreenSimCity: Holistic-resource-efficient consideration of urban districts (FKZ: 03EN3050A; duration: 01.04.2022 – 31.03.2025), funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection, investigated what characterizes sustainable districts today and in the future. The aim was to enable multidimensional modeling of urban districts in the early planning phases in order to both quantitatively record and qualitatively evaluate optimal solutions and their interactions. CircularGreenSimCity (CGSC) brought municipalities together with planning offices and the scientific community to jointly develop a picture of optimal neighborhood development. In order to do justice to the social dimension in addition to the technically developed approaches, a social science accompanying study was commissioned to IREES to integrate the social compatibility aspects of the developed neighborhood approaches into the project.
Goals and Results
The accompanying study focused on answering key questions about social sustainability in the neighborhood context. For a structured answer, the following questions were first divided into three thematic blocks: understanding sustainability, target groups and implementation. Each thematic block was subdivided into two questions and successively processed and answered with the CGSC consortium in two workshops, both online and in person:
- What is meant by social sustainability, especially in the context of urban and neighborhood development?
- Which social aspects need to be considered in neighborhood planning and which aspects should/must be focused on?
- How can social aspects be implemented in neighborhood planning, especially with regard to the use of the simulation tool developed in the project?
- Which indicators can meaningfully reflect the social dimension of sustainability at city and neighborhood level?
- What stakeholders and target groups are there in the context of sustainable neighborhood development and how can they be involved in an “optimal” process?
- How can the acceptance of measures be improved depending on the social structure in the neighborhood?
