Climate Improvement Districts - ein Bindeglied zwischen Stadtentwicklung und Klimaschutz?

Der Klimawandel ist national und global ein allgegenwärtiges Thema und eine zentrale Herausforderung für die Gesellschaft. In mehreren wissenschaftlichen Studien ist bewiesen, dass sich das Klima verändert, weshalb zukunftsfähige Handlungen nötig sind. Maßnahmen im Bereich von Klimaschutz und Energieeffizienz können in der Stadtplanung über das Städtebaurecht und das Energiefachrecht erfolgen. In dieser Publikation wird anhand der derzeitigen Gesetzgebung analysiert, was bereits möglich ist und was nicht, und mit diesem Ergebnis werden Anknüpfungspunkte und Möglichkeiten für ein Climate Improvement District dargestellt, wobei klimaschützende Maßnahmen durch Private erfolgen. Climate Improvement Districts gehören zu den sogenannten Urban Improvement Districts, bei denen es sich um eine private Initiative zur Stadtentwicklung gemäß § 171 f Baugesetzbuch handelt. Dabei werden in festgelegten Gebieten wie Innenstädten, Stadtteilzentren sowie Wohnquartieren und Gewerbezentren Entwicklungsmaßnahmen in privater Verantwortung durchgeführt. Abgeleitet von den bereits existierenden Business Improvement Districts und den Housing Improvement Districts soll Klimaschutz bürgernah und mit privatem Kapital erfolgen. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, das neue Instrument zu erklären und auf seine derzeitige Anwendbarkeit zu prüfen. Dazu werden zum einen die Business Improvement Districts und die Housing Improvement Districts vor allem auf ihre rechtlichen Grundlagen und ihre Umsetzung untersucht und zum anderen analysiert, ob und wie sich diese Ausgangspunkte auf ein Climate Improvement District übertragen lassen können. Darüber hinaus werden Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten und verschiedene Handlungen wie beispielsweise Energieeinsparung und Verkehr sowie Maßnahmen für bestimmte Quartiersformen vorgestellt. Die Einrichtung eines Climate Improvement Districts ist prinzipiell möglich, allerdings müsste dazu eine Änderung in den Landesgesetzen vollzogen werden. In Abgrenzung zu den bereits möglichen Vorkehrungen durch Baugesetzbuch und Energiefachrecht bieten sich viele Anknüpfungspunkte zur Gestaltung eines Climate Improvement Districts. Durch Engagement und Wissen der Bürger können Maßnahmen im sozialen, ökologischen und ökonomischen Bereich durchgeführt werden. Climate Improvement Districts erweisen sich als zukunftsfähiges Mittel zum Klimaschutz.Climate Change has become an ubiquitous topic and poses one of the biggest challenges facing society, both on a national and on a global level. Several academic studies have demonstrated that the climate is changing and that sustainable measures are needed. Measures in the field of climate protection and energy efficiency can be deducted from by the town planning law and the German Energy Specialty Law. This publication uses the current legislation analyzing its implement opportunities. Based on the result of this analysis, it presents the possibilities and connecting factors for a Climate Improvement District taking into account that climate-friendly measures are usually carried out by private initiatives. Climate Improvement Districts are counted among the so-called Urban Improvement Districts which are private initiatives of urban development subject to § 171 f of the German Federal Building Code. In defines such areas as inner cities, district centers as well as residential areas and business centres where development measures should be carried out on private responsibility. Originating from the principles of Business Improvement Districts and Housing Improvement Districts, climate protection should be citizen-orientated and financed by private capital. This paper aims at explaining the new instrument and investigates its current practical application. Therefore, Business Improvement Districts and Housing Improvement Districts will mainly be examined with regard to their legal foundations and implementations. Moreover, this paper will deal with the question if and how these initial points can be applied on a Climate Improvement District. In addition, configuration possibilities and different actions for energy saving and for traffic as well as measures for certain forms of quarters will be suggested. The constitution of a Climate Improvement District is theoretically possible. Nevertheless, there has to be an alteration of the Federal State Law first. There are many points of references for the constitution of a Climate Improvement District by creating a distinction from already possible provisions based on the Federal Building Code and the German Energy Specialty Law. Social, ecological and economic measures will be carried through with the commitment and expertise of the citizens of a district. Climate Improvement Districts will prove to be a sustainable method for climate protection

New Media Urbanism: How Brand-driven City Building is Virtualising the Actual of Space

This work is an investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding in relation to its transformational effects on the contemporary spatial – and urban – reality. Based on a cultural analysis of the brand as capitalist institution, it develops an understanding of the rationale behind the construction of large-scale architectural complexes that relate to corporate brands. The consequences of this process will be discussed regarding two examples of corporate brand-building (“Autostadt Wolfsburg”, “BMW Welt Munich”) and one case of indirectly brand-inspired city development (“Anting New Town”). Theoretically, the work relies on a poststructuralist framework, employing ideas from Deleuze and Sloterdijk. It argues that the brand can be interpreted as a “virtual” in the Deleuzian sense, and that its going-spatial can be read as a way to create new levels of virtual-actual interaction. These interactions will be interpreted as necessary for a brand to survive, but also to generate new levels of risk. This work will analyse how the effects on the urban sphere that are the outcome of corporate spatialisation effectively mean that the city enters into a mode of virtual urbanity. In this process, urban structure will be shown to force the historical into space. A notion of a hybrid history will be developed. It will be shown that brand space consists of different modes of temporality which create different colliding “strands” of history. These colliding histories are arguably part of what will be called “viral urbanism”. This viral mediatisation of space will be shown to result in a regime of “global urbanity”. This regime will be approached by integrating the arguments around virtual and actual into Sloterdijk’s concept of a world of “spheres”. The latter will be used to understand the spatiality of mediatised spaces. It will be argued that brand space can be seen as an instance of new media urbanism

O cotidiano da instituição de educação infantil: Cadê o sujeito que estava aqui?

Trabalho de Conclusão do Curso de Especialização em Educação Infantil - 1ª Edição – Polo Joinville - SC, para a obtenção do Grau de Especialista em Educação InfantilEste artigo reflete sobre a possibilidade das crianças pequenas tornarem-se protagonistas no cotidiano da Educação Infantil. É uma síntese das reflexões construídas a partir do projeto de intervenção pedagógica realizado em um Centro de Educação Infantil da Rede Municipal de Joinville, durante o curso de Especialização em Educação Infantil da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, com crianças de 3 e 4 anos. Articula com algumas discussões de teóricos que tem se dedicado ao estudo da brincadeira, da organização dos espaços e tempos e da participação das crianças no que diz respeito à sua própria história nas instituições. Outro aspecto relevante no artigo é a reflexão sobre conceitos de infância, criança e educação e o quanto essas concepções interferem na prática do professor

Women in Ministerial Leadership Roles

The literature shows that women in positions of leadership are more accepted in the realms of business and politics than in the church. There is an increase of women entering seminary programs and theological training centers in the pursuit of ministerial leadership roles yet, upon completion, job placement is challenging. There is still a polarized view of women in ministerial leadership that has led to inconsistencies, confusion, and the need for clarity. The purpose of this study is to identify the views of graduate students in Liberty University Rawlings School of Divinity on women in ministerial leadership roles. The most interesting finding of this research was that while 55.85% of participants believe women should not lead the church, 58.05% believe women can lead men in the church, and 37.21% believe the statement “if men do not lead, women should.” These seemingly contradictory responses reflect complex viewpoints that make it imperative that theological training centers, seminary programs, organizations, and the church seek to better understand the intricacies of this subject