Symposium: CENTRALITIES 4.0 - Medium-sized centers in the age of digitalization

The first day of the event will discuss which changes in traffic, economic and social structures will result from digitization and how these will affect the attractiveness and tasks of medium-sized cities. The second day will focus on the question of how this will change the basic understanding of services of general interest as well as the role of medium-sized centers and whether this must have an impact on the practice of the normative allocation of central-location tasks.

In the course of digitalization, a rapid change in the structures of retail trade, mobility offers and services of general interest is becoming apparent. This change is also influencing the development of medium-sized centers in Germany. In view of increasing disparities between rural areas and metropolitan regions, the role of medium-sized centers has been changing for years anyway. Technological innovations such as online retailing, autonomous driving or telemedicine are likely to further modify some central-location functions.

In the future, individual municipal tasks will be supported by the co-production of civil society actors, replaced by new offerings or even eliminated altogether, but new tasks will also be added. The original control models of regional planning, which were developed under completely different economic and technical conditions, must be adapted to these changes in the long term.

Registration at zentralitaet@uni-kassel.de
Participation is free of charge.

Location

ASL Building, Room 0106/0105

Speakers
Keynote: Stephen Graham, Newcastle University
and
Kai Bachmann - Zweckverband Raum Kassel; Michael Bentlage - Technical University of Munich; Verena Brehm - University of Kassel; Rainer Danielzyk - University of Hannover; Jörg Dürrschmidt - Ludwigsburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts; Kerstin Faber - Internationale Bauausstellung Thüringen; Dirk Heinrichs - German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Transport Research; Florian Ismaier - Hessian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Energy, Transport and Regional Development; Oliver Junk - Mayor of Goslar; Dirk Michaelis - District of Stendal; Mathias Mitteregger - Vienna University of Technology; Claudia Neu - University of Göttingen/ University of Kassel; Philipp Oswalt - University of Kassel; Rolf-Dieter Postlep - Expert Group of the Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy, Transport and Regional Development; Stephan Rammler - Future and Mobility Researcher, HfbK Braunschweig; Stefan Rettich - University of Kassel; Frank Roost - University of Kassel; Christoph Trinemeier - Rhine-Neckar Regional Association; Kai Vöckler - Offenbach University of Applied Sciences; Thomas Walter - Thuringian Ministry of Infrastructure and Agriculture;
Annemarie Wojtech - Fraunhofer Institute for Supply Chain Services, Nuremberg