Urban and Rural Areas
The Ministry has various programmes and funding schemes to support towns and cities. A changing economic framework and demographic change confront us with new challenges, and we have to join forces to tackle them.
Over 1,300 delegates attended the International Conference on Urban Energies
On 11 and 12 October 2012, the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development joined forces with the Standing Conference of Federal State Ministers and Senators responsible for Urban Development, Building and Housing, the German Association of Cities and the German Association of Towns and Municipalities to host the International Conference on Urban Energies in Berlin.
Rural Infrastructure Initiative
Rural regions offer people attractive places to live, work and visit. At the same time, population decline and out-migration present them with major challenges.
Regional development and demographics
With its regional planning policy, the Federal Government is striving to create equivalent social conditions in all sub-regions of Germany. This task is anchored in the constitution and must come to terms with the sweeping changes to which our society is subject.
Urban development assistance
With the "Social City" programme, the Federal Government is helping towns and cities to improve living conditions in neighbourhoods that are physically run-down, economically disadvantaged and socially deprived.
Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities
Within the framework of the German EU Council Presidency in the first half of 2007, an informal meeting of the ministers responsible for urban and spatial development was held on 24 and 25 May. The key policy issue of the informal ministerial meeting was “Strengthening European cities and their regions – promoting competitiveness, social and territorial cohesion in the cities and regions of Europe”.
European spatial development
The objective of European spatial policy is to make maximum use of the potential inherent in the regions. Quality of life is to be offered to everyone as an expression of "social solidarity".