HeKriS – Challenges of resilience in European cities
Development of planning strategies and creative measures by the University Partnership from the National Technical University of Athens – NTUA (Faculty of Architecture) and the Leibniz Universität Hannover – LUH (Faculty of Architecture and Landscape).
In the events of crises or hazards (natural hazards such as floods or climate related heat waves and drought as well as societal extreme events as a financial crises or refugee influx), cities should be able to fulfil their societal and economic duties in the long term. In many cities the question arises how and with which measures the resilience can be increased as well as how strategies for successful sustainable urban development can be implemented.
Within the framework of the University Partnership, approaches and experiences with regard to urban crises are identified in German and Greek cities, suitable strategies and measures for implementation are developed and these are examined for transferability to other contexts.
Entwicklung planerischer Strategien und kreativer Maßnahmen durch die Hochschulpartnerschaft von der Nationalen Technischen Universität Athen – NTUA (Fakultät für Architektur) und der Leibniz Universität Hannover – LUH (Fakultät für Architektur und Landschaft).
Städte müssen beim Eintreten von Krisensituationen (natürliche Katastrophen wie Hochwasser/Überflutungen oder klimabedingte Hitze-/Dürreperioden sowie gesellschaftliche Extremsituationen wie Finanzkrise oder Flüchtlingsproblematik) langfristig in der Lage sein, ihre gesellschaftlichen und ökonomischen Aufgaben zu erfüllen. In vielen Kommunen stellt sich jedoch, nicht zuletzt vor dem Hintergrund der Finanzknappheit der öffentlichen Haushalte, die Frage, mit welchen Maßnahmen und in welcher Form die Krisenfestigkeit erhöht und erfolgreiche Strategien nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung initiiert werden können.
Im Rahmen der Hochschulpartnerschaft werden Ansätze und Erfahrungen mit Blick auf die urbane Krisenfestigkeit in deutschen und griechischen Städten identifiziert, geeignete Strategien und Maßnahmen zur Umsetzung entwickelt und diese hinsichtlich der Übertragbarkeit auf andere Kontexte überprüft.
Pagonis, Thanos(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
Urban areas increasingly have to deal with systemic transitions in response to climate change, such as adaptation for extreme precipitation and heat, which require interventions to mitigate and adapt. In the case of Athens, ...
Scholles, Frank(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
The article deals with flood protection and flood prevention as a contribution to a more resilient city region in general and in Hanover. Flood protection of Hanover’s city centre has been dealt with since the 15th century. ...
Lava, Riva(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
The School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) has over the past four years and within its academic discipline developed educational programs in order to raise awareness on the challenges ...
Ilah Islam, Josh; Fei, Yuxin; Papaiosif, Anastasia Dimitra; Stampelos, Evangelos(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
Heat islands as a modern urban phenomenal problem, is caused not only by the construction and planning but also by the behaviour of citizens. The paper discusses the issue focusing on Raschplatz and its surroundings in ...
Ayala, Paola; Huang, Hsin Ju; Kardaras, Georgios; Ninou, Aikaterini(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
Maintaining the function of the systems and recovering from shocks or chronic stresses is what, nowadays, refers to Urban Resilience. Resilience is a term derived from the Latin verb resilire, which means bounce. It was ...
Rizou, Anna(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
The expanses of climate change are diverse and several. Cities are facing the impacts of global warming and need to adapt to these changes. Like most cities, Hannover is also affected by the results of climate change. Areas ...
Greinke, Lena; Menking, Kendra; Snieg, Filip(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
Global climate change, as well as economic and social changes, pose new challenges to urban and regional development worldwide. Rapidly changing climate, economic and social trends require adaptation and address several ...
Argyriou, Maria; Breuste, Selma-Paulina; Chouliaras, Angelos; Kuritsyn, Ivan; Lee, Hee Jae(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
This paper explores how factors of flood resistance and resilience are addressed within the development of an area in Ricklingen, a hydro-geologically vulnerable district in the southwest of Hanover. The already existing ...
Menking, Kendra; Rutikanga, Fabrice(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
As part of the HeKris research and exchange, this paper presents a creative proposal in dealing with the issue of urban heat islands in the city centre of Hannover. The area in question is essentially fragmented due to ...
Katzschner, Lutz; Kupski, Sebastian(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
Over the last 40 years, there has been an increasing amount of world interest on urban climatic map (UCMap) Studies. Up to now, there are over 15 countries around the world processing their own Climatic Maps, developing ...
Schmidt, Dirk(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
The paper shows the impacts of climate change in the city of Hannover. Problems with heat load and extreme weather events (heavy rain, summer droughts) are already in existence. In the future, these impacts are expected ...
Michalczyk, Julia(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
The exposure to heat is currently seen as the most important direct impact of climate change on human health (Menne 2011: 6f). In areas with high levels of sealing and low aeration, the overheating in cities leads to urban ...
Menking, Kendra(Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2019)
Numerous threats, stresses and shocks occurring from both natural hazards and human-made events are not only put on our ecosystems but further concern our urban and regional systems. Global warming has reached European ...
Hatziyannaki, Zoe(Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2019)
The paper discusses the installation work titled “The Past of Things to Come” which was exhibited in Athens in 2018. The main idea was based on an alleged occupation of a building that developed into a critical and sarcastic ...
Brenner, Jana; Jordan, Hanna; Valli, Evdokia(Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2019)
The area of Exarcheia in Athens is characterised by the effects of the economic crisis and political activism. This results in a high number of abandoned buildings and spaces and also in a considerable number of illegal ...
Chocontá, Laura; Snieg, Filip(Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2019)
Athens, like most Greek urban centres, has been severely affected by the economic crisis that began in 2008. The city‘s economics badly suffered from impacts of the crisis that, unfortunately for the society, resulted in ...
Ehlers, Alina; Wilhelm, Carola; Vreda, Dimitra(Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2019)
The economic crisis that affected Greece since 2011 and European Austerity politics led to considerable cuts in the Greek public budget and shortcomings of social welfare (VAIOU & KALANDIDIS 2016: p. 462). The reduction ...
Guidi, Riccardo(Hannover : Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Umweltplanung, 2019)
According to an authoritative literature (KOUSIS 2017, KOUSIS & PASHOU 2017), citizens of Southern European countries have developed “alternative forms of resilience” to cope with the hardship due to recession and austerity. ...