Job Advertisements: Scientific Staff (m/f/d) for the Centre for Urbanisation and Peripheralization (CUSP) at TU Munich
NEWS | 14.04.2025
Current job advertisement for research associates (m/f/d) at the Centre for Urbanisation and Peripheralization (CUSP) at the Technical University of Munich. Further information can be found in the PDF file.
Project Documentation: "Landsberg am Lech - Ready for 2055?"
NEWS| 31.03.2025
Project Documentation: "Landsberg am Lech - Ready for 2055?"
Students from the Master's programs in Urbanism and Architecture worked for several months to look at the long-term development of the town of Landsberg. The aim was to design a long-term spatial strategy. Based on a comprehensive analysis of the region and a methodology for working with future trends, the next 30 years were examined. Four student teams each present a vision of the future for “Landsberg 2055” and use an overall strategy and specific spatial proposals to show possible development paths for the region and local stakeholders.
The four student teams focus on different topics and show different development paths for the year 2055. How can resilient land use, inclusive mobility and social cohesion be strengthened and interlinked to achieve sustainable growth? How can the prospects of young residents be improved and education and innovation become key catalysts for positive development? How can Landsberg become a municipality that leads by example through the consistent implementation of sustainable mobility, a liveable city center and a self-sufficient energy supply? And how can Landsberg carry today's qualities into the future in order to be “just as great, only better” in 2055?
Link to the digital documentation (PDF, ca. 70 MB) available on mediaTUM.
Working Paper: Which Regions Benefit from Rail Accessibility? Germany 1990-2030
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"Time-space map" of regional rail accessibility in Germany 1990
As part of our ongoing DFG-funded research project on the effects of High-Speed Rail (HSR) lines on urban development and current dissertations at the chair, we have constructed a database of interregional rail connections in Germany and neighbouring countries during the timespan of 1990 to 2030, assuming that all planned rail projects of the current German Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan (Bundesverkehrswegeplan, BVWP) are implemented. The database has been used for two research papers currently in preparation, focusing on two often used indicators to measure accessibility: gravitational accessibility of population, and degree centrality within the rail network (a graph-based measure).
However, the database allows the calculation of other, simlarly interesting and relevant accessibility measures: closeness centrality, betweenness centrality, and daily accessibility. It also enables us to implement illustrative visualisations of the development of rail accessibility in Germany in the form of so-called "time-space maps", time-based anamorphic cartograms, based on multidimensional scaling algorithms. Even if these results are not (yet) included in journal publications, they might be of interest for both the research community and the general public as well. They are hence included in a new working paper published on this website, which will be updated as the project continues.
We are looking forward to discuss our findings and visualisations with our interested readers!
