GIS-based multidimensional Methods for optimal Building Land Development in Urban Development - based on the Example of the inner-city Project Holsten-Areal in Hamburg

The global urban growth trend is also evident in Germany and the pressure on the real estate markets is pushing construction activity to the threshold of available building land. To limit urban expansion, additional space is to be created primarily through brownfield development, but here large housing po-tentials are usually only to be found on sites that are difficult to develop. The framework conditions that have arisen here in the interplay between land and real estate markets in conjunc-tion with the multidimensionality of urban planning problems suggest a need for urban planners and researchers to develop more effective methods. This paper therefore describes a GIS-based method for optimising building sites, which can be used to evaluate sites in context and optimise them attribute-spa-tially. It combines a fuzzy methodology with a heuristic op-timisation algorithm, the Parameterised Region-Growing, and demonstrates it using the example of the Holsten site in Ham-burg. It successfully generates spatially compact and cohe-rent, highly valued residential building areas, to which urban development parameters are assigned. Comparisons with ex-isting planning show instructive results, e.g., regarding more effective utilisation of good micro-locations, realistic building density values and realisable area parameters. © 2022, Oekom Verlag. All rights reserved.