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Abstract
Evidenced-based planning is a salient issue and evokes questions about the role of expertise and scientific policy advice in spatial planning. This paper considers recent trends in the debate on scientific policy advice – crises of expertise, privatization/democratization of expertise, blurring of boundaries bet ween science and policy – and reflects upon these trends against the background of the particular situation of scientific policy advice in spatial planning in Germany. Many insights from the wider debate on policy advice also hold true for spatial planning. However, spatial planning, at least in Germany, reveals some particularities. The scientific foundation of spatial planning is interdisciplinary and the gap between science and practice is probably less visible compared to other scientific disciplines. This makes dualistic approaches (science–policy boundaries) questionable. At the same time, recent trends towards Gesellschaftsberatung (advice for society), transformative science and transdisciplinarity are attractive directions in spatial planning.
English title: Relevance, Change and Demands in Scientific Policy Advice in Spatial Planning
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2 www.brookings.edu/about/programs/metro, vgl. Katz, Bradley Citation2013.
4 Vgl. den kurzen Überblick bei Fürst Citation2010: 103.
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Karsten Zimmermann
Prof. Dr. Karsten Zimmermann ist seit 2012 Professor für Europäische Planungskulturen an der Fakultät Raumplanung der Technischen Universität Dortmund. Er studierte Sozialwissenschaften an der Leibniz Universität Hannover. 2004 promovierte Zimmermann an der Universität Hannover und habilitierte 2010 im Fach Politikwissenschaften an der TU Darmstadt. Anschliessend war er Gastprofessor am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Technischen Universität Darmstadt und Mitglied des interdisziplinären Forschungsverbunds «Eigenlogik der Städte» der TU Darmstadt.