2. Informal
Planning
Table of contents :
General Remarks
Berlin Examples
Strategic Plans
Urban Development Plans
Sectoral Development Plans
Spatial Development Plans
Pre-arrangements for Detailed Plans
Landscape Plans
3. Informal
Planning
Principles
If the legal plans are the obligation, informal plans are free-style.
In general informal plans serve for discussions and alignments.
Characteristics of informal plans :
Creative : No legislation or rules have to be followed
Descriptive: They can be like pictures necessary to boost the
imagination of the observer.
Informative: Show additional information.
Abstracted: Focus only on the main points.
Alternative: In the form of sketches different drafts can be
displayed.
5. Informal
Planning
Strategic Plans
A strategic development concept for the city as a whole formulates
guidelines and perspectives for the long term development, looking
into a wide range of issues and development alternatives and
pointing out various fields of action.
6. Informal
Planning
Strategic Plans
Based on the guidelines of government
policy the Berlin Strategy | Urban
DevelopmentConcept Berlin 2030
focuses on the city´s future and paints a
picture of the Berlin of today and the
Berlin of tomorrow.
It includes a status report (BerlinToday)
and the strategies for Berlin 2030
(BerlinTomorrow). Building on the
status report, the strategies for Berlin
2030 focus on the city´s development
goals, promising initiatives and specific
areas for exemplary implementation.
7. Informal
Planning
Strategic Plans
"BerlinToday": Status Report (from 2013)
The status report consists of a knowledge-based, data-rich
analysis of Berlin´s current urban development.
It thematically concentrates on the most important
developments.
In a summary overview, the report takes a cross-sectional look at
the central strengths and weaknesses, as well as the opportunities
and threads/risks, concerning a sustainable and future-oriented
development.
The status report creates the foundation for the debate on
development needs as well as on the strategies for the city´s
future.
9. Informal
Planning
Strategic Plans
"BerlinTomorrow": BerlinStrategy | Urban Development Concept
Berlin 2030
The Berlin Strategy provides city-wide development perspectives
focusing on specific selected urban locations in concrete, spatial
terms. For these transformation areas, the concept describes the
targeted direction of development.
Transformation areas can be regions that are undergoing many
changes that need intervention from the public sector, that are
suitable for location profiling, or that play a special role in the
fabric of the city.Thus, the transformation areas offer urban
development planning the advantages of steering important
development impulses in the right direction and setting priorities.
This also allows public and private stakeholders to design and
engage in coordinated group actions.
15. Informal
Planning
UrbanDevelopment
Plan
Urban Development plans
Urban development plans are instruments for structural planning.They
are designed for the whole city and include directives and objectives for
different functions such as work, living, social infrastructure, transport,
supply and waste disposal.They are the "Basis for all future planning"
and solidify the land use plan by defining spatial and temporal priorities
and pointing out the necessary measures to be taken.
In the context of sustainable development, urban development
planning will become increasingly important.Their task is to identify
social and spatial problems at an early stage and to develop
corresponding strategies to deal with these problems.
Such process is a comprehensive cross-sectional task that must
preventively deal with economic, ecological and social development
questions in increasing measure.
Urban development planning is a process in steady continuation and
renewal through feedback. An internet presentation is supposed to
open the possibility of information to the public at large and to
stimulate the discussion of the results. Additional public workshops are
undertaken.
17. Informal
Planning
SectoralDevelopment
Plans
Sectoral Development Plans
formulate planning guidelines and
objectives as well as priorities and
measures of implementation on a
city-wide level for issues such as
Housing
Commerce / Industry
Mobility (Traffic +
Transportation)
Public Services and Utilities
Hierarchy of urban centers
Landscape / Green areas
Ecological issues
and varies combinations.
24. Informal
Planning
Spatial Development
Plans
Intermediate Spatial Plans
The city districts are
preparing Intermediate Area
Plans for sub-sections of their
area. Including town planning
as well as landscape
proposals, this informal
planning instrument closes
the gap between the city-
wide General Plan and site-
specific Local or Detailed
Plans.
They contain, as a rule, a
concept for the distribution
of land uses, specific
proposals for important sites
and planning topics, and an
urban design concept.
27. Informal
Planning
Spatial Development
Plans “Planwerke”
Particular Spatial Development Plans convey the medium to long-
term prospects for the respective subspace.They serve opinion
making about concepts, policies and priorities and are an offer to
all who participate in the urban and landscape development of the
corresponding space.
Spatial and structural relationships are mapped across district
boundaries and allow inferences about individual development
projects.
These Plans are developed primarily for areas where particularly
high change dynamics needs concentrated control and which have
importance for the entire city of Berlin.
31. Informal
Planning
Pre-arrangementsfor
Detailed Plans
To set up a Detailed Plan a concept and an urban design proposal
is needed as a base for more detailed zoning regulations
Usually the local plan is based on an draft of an urban - or
architectural design. It should be avoided to have only one
solution without alternatives.
Alternative proposals can be developed by different methods:
Urban design / architectural competitions
Workshops with different architects
Competitions between different investors with different architects