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Looking from the open-cast mining landscapes of the Rhineland and the rolling hills of the Dutch Heuvelland to the River Meuse, you can see a diverse region in transition. But the starting points for these changes could hardly be more different—from the pressure to grow along the Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia to the structural changes brought about by the phasing out of lignite and the redevelopment of a border region at the heart of Europe. Questions arise not only about the future of Europe’s largest landscape construction site, but also about the power of the national border and the necessity for cross-border planning. The book uses numerous maps to provide an overview of the current situation and links this to innovative concepts and ideas for shaping the transformation processes. In addition to highlighting the different potentials and challenges of the different sub-areas, the book also illustrates the underlying processes. Operating at the increasingly important regional level, these ideas offer a glimpse into the distant future without losing sight of the here and now. Provides a comprehensive cartographic overview of the Rhine-Meuse region Proposes fundamental guidelines and examples for informal regional development and cross-border planning Suggests innovative strategies and concepts for urban and regional development

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Christa Reicher has been head of the Chair of Urban Design at RWTH Aachen since 2018, as well as director of the university’s Institute for Urban Design and European Urbanism. She has also held the UNESCO Chair for Cultural Heritage and Urban Development since 2023. Prior to joining RWTH Aachen, she helped shape the Ruhr region through her professorships at TU Dortmund and Bochum University of Applied Sciences. She is a managing partner of the RHA REICHER HAASE ASSOZIIERTE architecture and planning office. Canan Çelik studied applied geography at RWTH Aachen and at the Charles University in Prague. Following her undergraduate studies, she gained a master’s degree in spatial planning from TU Dortmund and Hanyang University in Seoul. She has been working on her doctorate at the Chair of Urban Design and the Institute for Urban Design and European Urbanism since 2018. Her work focusses on formal and informal planning processes in cross-border contexts, and is the deputy head of the chair and institute. Holger Hoffschröer studied Urban Design in Dortmund and Michigan State University. He has been working at RHA REICHER HAASE ASSOZIIERTE since 2011, following roles in Rotterdam, Essen, and Dortmund. He became a managing partner in 2018. He was a member of the federal convention on building culture Konvent der Bundesstiftung Baukultur from 2012 to 2014, and was a research associate at TU Dortmund from 2015 to 2018. He has been a lecturer in urban design and city planning at TU Dortmund and FH Münster University of Applied Sciences since 2011. Christian Larisch has been a research associate at the Chair of Urban Design and Institute for Urban Design and European Urbanism at RWTH Aachen since 2020, where he began working on his doctorate in 2021. He studied spatial planning at TU Dortmund and helped guide the ""Raumstrategie Rheinisches Revier 2038+"" and ""Raumstrategie Zuid-Limburg im euregionalen Kontext (ZL’EU)"" planning processes. His work focusses on transit-oriented development, interactions between mobility and the built environment, strategic spatial development, and urban and regional planning. Nicole Maurer Lemmens was born in southern Limburg in the Netherlands in 1969, and studied architecture, urban planning and construction sciences at TU Eindhoven. She founded Maurer United Architecture together with Marc Maurer. She has worked as a lecturer at academies and universities in the Netherlands and Germany. In 2020, she joined the Chair of Urban Design and Institute for Urban Design and European Urbanism at RWTH Aachen as a research associate.

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