Abstract

The pandemic has altered the way we live and it is difficult to foresee which alterations will sustainably change the way our towns and cities function. Some alterations are rooted in the changes of 2020; others have been boosted by the pandemic. This article gives an overview of a planners’ debate in German publications in newspapers and practice-oriented journals during 2020. If published in scientific journals, some may have been considered preprints and/or opinion articles. The aim of this article is to contextualise these German-language contributions to a societal discussion – together with my observations as somebody who is, at the same time, a user and a professional observer of the city – into an emerging scientific discourse. It focuses on urban retail, the question of urban solidarity and gives a scenario-like outlook on the German small town and the German big city, which stand for the polycentrism of Germany and Central Europe and for major types of German and European urban forms (smalland medium-sized towns: 20 000–100 000 inhabitants; big cities: 100000–500000 inhabitants). It concludes with procedural options for planners that derive from everyday practice and scientific discourses on German Urban Renewal.

摘要

大流行改变了我们的生活方式，很难预见哪些改变将可持续地改变我们城镇的运作方式。某些变化植根于2020年的变化；大流行使其他人感到鼓舞。本文概述了2020年德国计划在报纸和实践期刊上发表的规划者的辩论。如果在科学期刊上发表，则可能被认为是预印本和/或舆论文章。本文的目的是将这些德语语言对社会讨论的贡献与我作为城市的使用者和专业观察员的观察结果一起，结合到新兴的科学论述中。它专注于城市零售，城市团结问题，并对德国的小城镇和德国的大城市给出了一种类似情景的观点，它们代表了德国和中欧的多中心主义以及德国和欧洲城市形态的主要类型（中小城镇： 2万至10万居民；大城市：10万至500000居民）。它以针对德国城市更新的日常实践和科学论述的规划师程序选择作为结束。