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Socially Integrative City - Publications in English

The following important Socially Integrative City publications and documents can be downloaded or printed from full-text or pdf files:

1999

• Interim evaluation of the Community Initiative URBAN in the German Objective-1-Regions, Kathleen Toepel, Robert Sander, Wolf-Christian Strauss, translated from: Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin: Wochenbericht 24/1999

2001

• Integrated Action Plans, translated from: Soziale Stadt - info 6, German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu), october 2001, p. 2-6
• Integrated Action Plans: Länder stipulations, translated from: Soziale Stadt - info 6, German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu), october 2001, p. 7-10
• The Local Economy - a Central Socially Integrative City, translated from: Soziale Stadt - info 5, newsletter devoted to the federal-Land Socially Integrative City programme, German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu), Berlin, 2001, p. 2-7
• Neighbourhood Management - A Key Instrument in Integrative Urban District Development, Thomas Franke and Rolf-Peter Löhr, paper delivered at the EURA-Conference "Area-based initiatives in contemporary urban policy - innovations in city governance", Copenhagen, 17-19 May 2001

2002

• District Culture, translated from: Soziale Stadt - info 10, German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu), december 2002, p. 2-7
• Resource Pooling in the Socially Integrative City Programme, translated from: Soziale Stadt - info 9, German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu), june 2002, p. 2-9
• Socially Integrative City, translation of parts of the initial appraisal of the federal/Länder programme "Districts with Special Development Needs - The Socially Integrative City", commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing (BMVBW) for the congress "Die Soziale Stadt - Zusammenhalt, Sicherheit, Zukunft" in Berlin, 7-8 May 2002, German Institute of Urban Affairs, Berlin, 2002
  1. The Socially Integrative City Programme: from traditional urban renewal to integrative urban district development, Heidede Becker, Thomas Franke, Rolf-Peter Löhr and Ulla-Kristina Schuleri-Hartje
  3. "Special Development Needs" – Socially Integrative City Programme Districts, Heidede Becker
  4. Integrated action plans - a tool for controlling and coordinating social development in urban districts, Heidede Becker, Christa Böhme and Ulrike Meyer
  5. Fields of activity of integrative urban district development (chapters 5.3, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8), Christa Böhme, Heidede Becker, Ulrike Meyer, Ulla-Kristina Schuleri-Hartje and Wolf-Christian Strauss
  7. Neighbourhood management - a critical tool for integrative district development, Thomas Franke
  8. Activation and participation, Thomas Franke
  Summary
• Activation and Participation as Part of Socially Integrated City, translated from: Soziale Stadt - info 7, German Institute of Urbans Affairs (Difu), february 2002, p. 2-6

2003

• Socially Integrative City Strategies, translation of parts of the final report of the initial implementation phase (autumn 1999 to autumn 2003), German Institute of Urban Affairs (ed.), Berlin 2003, commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing (BMVBW)
• Activation and Participation – A Survey of Seven European Countries, Soziale Stadt - info 14, newsletter devoted to the federal-Land Socially Integrative City programme, German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu), Berlin, 2003
• Socially Integrative City - the cooperation and confrontation between urban research and urban policy in Germany, Dr. Rolf-Peter Löhr, German Institute of Urban Affairs, Berlin. Paper prepared for and speech held at the EURA - Eurocities - MRI Conference "European urban development, research and policy - the future of European cohesion policy", Budapest, 28 - 30 August 2003
• Health Promotion - Key Integrated Urban District Development Topic, translated from: Soziale Stadt - info 11, German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu), march 2003, p. 2-8

2004

• Interim Appraisal of the Federal-Länder-Programme 'Districts with special development needs - the Social City' ('Soziale Stadt'), short version, work carried out by Reinhard Aehnelt, Hartmut Häußermann, Wolfgang Jaedicke, Michael Kahl, Kathleen Toepel, Commissioned by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing, represented by the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, Berlin, September 2004 (pdf, 178 kB)

2006

• Local Economy in Disadvantaged Urban Districts – A Survey of Five European Countries, Soziale Stadt - info 19, newsletter devoted to the federal-Land Socially Integrative City programme, German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu), Berlin, 2006
• Integrating Immigrants into Districts, translated from: Soziale Stadt - info 17, German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu), september 2006, p. 2-8

The literature database has additional source and text information on the topic of integrative urban district development (publications mainly in German; search help texts only available in German)