Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development

The (tedious) making of change: investigating agency dynamics in the sustainable mobility transformation of Wuppertal, Germany

This study addresses the need for a deeper, more empirically grounded understanding of agency dynamics in processes of change by examining successful sustainability-related projects in the mobility domain of the medium-sized German city of Wuppertal in the early stages of its sus...

Mapping long-term urban–rural sprawl trajectories at 100 m spatial resolution: Austria’s transition from low to high sprawl, 1975–2020

Urban sprawl—the decentralization of housing, employment, and economic activities into scattered, low-density settlement patterns—poses a major challenge to achieving SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities. Yet, its long-term development trajectories remain insufficiently und...