6th KoMet Tag: The Ruhr Area - a model for metropolitan transformation? - Lively discussion of the planned RuhrBand on transformation

At the 6th KoMet Tag, experts from the metropolitan research competence field of the University Alliance Ruhr shed light on the dynamic transformation processes and changing spatial structures in the Ruhr region from different perspectives. The topics were presented as 6 to 8-minute elevator pitches and then discussed and commented on with all those present.

The planned English-language RuhrBand will include the following topics:

_The industrial cultural landscape of the Ruhr: its zones, structures and functions
_What should we know about structural change?
_The Ruhr literary region: communication, institutionalization, transformation
_A region is written: Strategic narratives and narrative strategies in image films to promote the Ruhr region
_Spatial-functional division of labor in the Ruhr region
_Structural change in the Ruhr area: On the way to a knowledge-based economy?
_City, country or city-country? Architecture and urban development in the Ruhr region
_Social inequality and the “shame of privilege” in Dortmund-Hörde
_Soccer in the Ruhr area. A history of men's and women's sport
_Mobility and traffic in the Ruhr area - past, present, future
_Local measures for sustainability transformation in a disadvantaged, super-diverse arrival district: insights into transformative governance in Duisburg-Hochfeld
_Strategies of the Emscher conversion
_Environmental justice: An approach to urban health justice in the Ruhr area
_Hydrogen instead of coal: hopes and doubts
_The Ruhr region - a model for the transformation of metropolitan areas?

The overall aim of the book is to answer the question of the extent to which the Ruhr region can or wants to be a model for the transformation of metropolitan areas. Last but not least, the Ruhr region is regarded by experts as a prime example of innovative transformation. The International Building Exhibition Emscher Park, the redesign of the Emscher river system and the conversion of the industrial heritage are internationally recognized showcase projects.

Photos: Thorsten Wiechmann

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This event was again supported by the Emschergenossenschaft and NRW.BANK. Thank you very much!