Christian Fertner
Biographic Data
| ID | 5776526 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Fertner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Fertner |
| SIGNATURE | FERTNER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6112-3328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Digital permeation of urban planning practice
The field of urban planning is currently undergoing a profound transformation driven by digital technologies. These are increasingly used to support and automate the planning process, and have the potential to reshape the nature of planning itself and impact the core planning values of equity, transparency, efficiency, and legitimacy. One pressing issue is the growing use of standards, not only in data formats, but also in the categories that des…
Social vulnerability in regional climate adaptation planning in Europe – Conceptions, operationalisations and shared challenges
Attention to social vulnerability in relation to climate change has grown, but its incorporation into adaptation planning practice remains underexplored. This study examines how social vulnerability is conceptualised and operationalised in regional climate adaptation planning across 12 European regions, and analyses interregional challenges to inform a socially just transition. Empirically, the study gathers data from stakeholders across 12 Europ…
Understanding the change in the social networks of residential groups affected by urban renewal
Translating ‘New Compactism’, circulation of knowledge and local mutations
The international circulation of urban design concepts often leads to their characterization as transferable ideals defined by a set of universalized ‘best practices’ that are simply implemented in new localities, as is typical of top-down approaches to planning. Recently, the compact city and New Urbanism have become trendy concepts informing the development of urban projects across geographies. This research draws on ANT sensitivities and polic…
Digitalization in land-use planning
Digital transformation is shaping our lives and altering planning. Digitalization is closely linked to smart governance, through which administrative units such as cities and regions increasingly offer digital services related to spatial planning. However, the increasing digitalization of spatial planning has received little attention in academic planning literature, and few studies have analysed how digitalization affects planning practice. The …
Digital plans and plan data in planning support science
While we support the idea that the research field of planning support systems should develop into a planning support science, we note that in the current debate the rapidly progressing digitization in spatial planning practice is insufficiently taken into account. In particular, digital plans and plan data are not mentioned in Geertman and Stillwell’s paper. This is likely caused by the fact that the authors narrowly focus on collaborative planni…
Out-migration, rural livelihood and housing in Southwest China
Rural–urban migration is considered one of the main reasons for rural decline, but the links between out-migration and rural settlement change are not well understood. This study explores the microimpact of out-migration on rural livelihoods and housing strategies in Southwest China. It is based on the results of a survey with 411 respondents. A cluster analysis revealed five distinct types of rural households considering their ways of migration …
On-farm Business Structure Diversification in Greater Copenhagen—Farmers in an urban landscape or entrepreneurs in a rural landscape
Emerging digital plan data – new research perspectives on planning practice and evaluation
Profound digitalization of public administration is gaining momentum and spatial planning is no exception. To increase the transparency of planning and its usefulness for public and private actors, planning authorities have integrated production and online distribution of digital plan data within existing planning practices and workflows. Many European countries have established public spatial planning databases. Denmark is one of the forerunners…
Exploring the role of daily “modality styles” and urban structure in holidays and longer weekend trips
Small towns resisting urban decay through residential attractiveness. Findings from Denmark
Small towns are often considered as losing out in the current trend towards urban development. However, research from around Europe shows a great diversity of small town development, including successful development trajectories despite geographical disadvantages. Investigations into this are predominately done in the context of economic development and urban systems, but such approaches fail to explain why a number of small towns that are not ce…
The Emergence and Consolidation of the Urban‐Rural Region
In recent decades, urbanisation in E urope has been characterised by the development and expansion of functionally integrated urban regions. Areas around Copenhagen, D enmark, have also experienced continuous urbanisation and a considerable in‐migration, which has contributed to the development of a wider metropolitan region. Most recently, however, a shift of migration towards the urban centre has occurred. Was the emergence of the urban‐rural r…
Downscaling European urban-rural typologies
Urban-rural typologies are important means to improve social or economic policies and to reveal development patterns related to urbanisation. They are usually very differently defined and case specific, but there are also a few, more widely used typologies at the European scale. In this note typologies from the OECD, DG Regio, Eurostat and ESPON are compared and downscaled to the level of Danish municipalities to get a sharper picture of the urba…
Peri-urbanisation and multifunctional adaptation of agriculture around Copenhagen
Peri-urbanisation, as a process of the physical expansion of settlement areas but also socio-economic transformation, has been recognised as a major spatial development beyond the urban fringes. Agriculture, the main land use actor in the hinterlands of many urban areas is increasingly affected by urban encroachment, responds with adaptation strategies and farming activities to cope with the peri-urban framework conditions. Adaptation pathways en…
Urbanisation of rural areas
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 110(1):47–63, 2010 The growth of urban areas is one of the most important characteristics of spatial development in Europe during the past decades and is traditionally described with a few indicators on a relatively coarse spatial scale. However, urbanisation is not only a matter of land use change, but also socio-economic changes, which may or may not manifest itself as physical changes in built-…
Peri-urbanisation and multifunctional adaptation of agriculture around Copenhagen
Peri-urbanisation, as a process of the physical expansion of settlement areas but also socio-economic transformation, has been recognised as a major spatial development beyond the urban fringes. Agriculture, the main land use actor in the hinterlands of many urban areas is increasingly affected by urban encroachment, responds with adaptation strategies and farming activities to cope with the peri-urban framework conditions. Adaptation pathways en…
Urbanisation of rural areas
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 110(1):47–63, 2010 The growth of urban areas is one of the most important characteristics of spatial development in Europe during the past decades and is traditionally described with a few indicators on a relatively coarse spatial scale. However, urbanisation is not only a matter of land use change, but also socio-economic changes, which may or may not manifest itself as physical changes in built-…
Small towns resisting urban decay through residential attractiveness. Findings from Denmark
Small towns are often considered as losing out in the current trend towards urban development. However, research from around Europe shows a great diversity of small town development, including successful development trajectories despite geographical disadvantages. Investigations into this are predominately done in the context of economic development and urban systems, but such approaches fail to explain why a number of small towns that are not ce…
Understanding the change in the social networks of residential groups affected by urban renewal
Downscaling European urban-rural typologies
Urban-rural typologies are important means to improve social or economic policies and to reveal development patterns related to urbanisation. They are usually very differently defined and case specific, but there are also a few, more widely used typologies at the European scale. In this note typologies from the OECD, DG Regio, Eurostat and ESPON are compared and downscaled to the level of Danish municipalities to get a sharper picture of the urba…
Exploring the role of daily “modality styles” and urban structure in holidays and longer weekend trips
Emerging digital plan data – new research perspectives on planning practice and evaluation
Profound digitalization of public administration is gaining momentum and spatial planning is no exception. To increase the transparency of planning and its usefulness for public and private actors, planning authorities have integrated production and online distribution of digital plan data within existing planning practices and workflows. Many European countries have established public spatial planning databases. Denmark is one of the forerunners…
On-farm Business Structure Diversification in Greater Copenhagen—Farmers in an urban landscape or entrepreneurs in a rural landscape
The Emergence and Consolidation of the Urban‐Rural Region
In recent decades, urbanisation in E urope has been characterised by the development and expansion of functionally integrated urban regions. Areas around Copenhagen, D enmark, have also experienced continuous urbanisation and a considerable in‐migration, which has contributed to the development of a wider metropolitan region. Most recently, however, a shift of migration towards the urban centre has occurred. Was the emergence of the urban‐rural r…
Out-migration, rural livelihood and housing in Southwest China
Rural–urban migration is considered one of the main reasons for rural decline, but the links between out-migration and rural settlement change are not well understood. This study explores the microimpact of out-migration on rural livelihoods and housing strategies in Southwest China. It is based on the results of a survey with 411 respondents. A cluster analysis revealed five distinct types of rural households considering their ways of migration …
Urbanisation of rural areas
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 110(1):47–63, 2010 The growth of urban areas is one of the most important characteristics of spatial development in Europe during the past decades and is traditionally described with a few indicators on a relatively coarse spatial scale. However, urbanisation is not only a matter of land use change, but also socio-economic changes, which may or may not manifest itself as physical changes in built-…
Peri-urbanisation and multifunctional adaptation of agriculture around Copenhagen
Peri-urbanisation, as a process of the physical expansion of settlement areas but also socio-economic transformation, has been recognised as a major spatial development beyond the urban fringes. Agriculture, the main land use actor in the hinterlands of many urban areas is increasingly affected by urban encroachment, responds with adaptation strategies and farming activities to cope with the peri-urban framework conditions. Adaptation pathways en…
Downscaling European urban-rural typologies
Urban-rural typologies are important means to improve social or economic policies and to reveal development patterns related to urbanisation. They are usually very differently defined and case specific, but there are also a few, more widely used typologies at the European scale. In this note typologies from the OECD, DG Regio, Eurostat and ESPON are compared and downscaled to the level of Danish municipalities to get a sharper picture of the urba…
The Emergence and Consolidation of the Urban‐Rural Region
In recent decades, urbanisation in E urope has been characterised by the development and expansion of functionally integrated urban regions. Areas around Copenhagen, D enmark, have also experienced continuous urbanisation and a considerable in‐migration, which has contributed to the development of a wider metropolitan region. Most recently, however, a shift of migration towards the urban centre has occurred. Was the emergence of the urban‐rural r…
Small towns resisting urban decay through residential attractiveness. Findings from Denmark
Small towns are often considered as losing out in the current trend towards urban development. However, research from around Europe shows a great diversity of small town development, including successful development trajectories despite geographical disadvantages. Investigations into this are predominately done in the context of economic development and urban systems, but such approaches fail to explain why a number of small towns that are not ce…
Exploring the role of daily “modality styles” and urban structure in holidays and longer weekend trips
On-farm Business Structure Diversification in Greater Copenhagen—Farmers in an urban landscape or entrepreneurs in a rural landscape
Emerging digital plan data – new research perspectives on planning practice and evaluation
Profound digitalization of public administration is gaining momentum and spatial planning is no exception. To increase the transparency of planning and its usefulness for public and private actors, planning authorities have integrated production and online distribution of digital plan data within existing planning practices and workflows. Many European countries have established public spatial planning databases. Denmark is one of the forerunners…
Digital plans and plan data in planning support science
While we support the idea that the research field of planning support systems should develop into a planning support science, we note that in the current debate the rapidly progressing digitization in spatial planning practice is insufficiently taken into account. In particular, digital plans and plan data are not mentioned in Geertman and Stillwell’s paper. This is likely caused by the fact that the authors narrowly focus on collaborative planni…
Out-migration, rural livelihood and housing in Southwest China
Rural–urban migration is considered one of the main reasons for rural decline, but the links between out-migration and rural settlement change are not well understood. This study explores the microimpact of out-migration on rural livelihoods and housing strategies in Southwest China. It is based on the results of a survey with 411 respondents. A cluster analysis revealed five distinct types of rural households considering their ways of migration …
Translating ‘New Compactism’, circulation of knowledge and local mutations
The international circulation of urban design concepts often leads to their characterization as transferable ideals defined by a set of universalized ‘best practices’ that are simply implemented in new localities, as is typical of top-down approaches to planning. Recently, the compact city and New Urbanism have become trendy concepts informing the development of urban projects across geographies. This research draws on ANT sensitivities and polic…
Digitalization in land-use planning
Digital transformation is shaping our lives and altering planning. Digitalization is closely linked to smart governance, through which administrative units such as cities and regions increasingly offer digital services related to spatial planning. However, the increasing digitalization of spatial planning has received little attention in academic planning literature, and few studies have analysed how digitalization affects planning practice. The …
Understanding the change in the social networks of residential groups affected by urban renewal
Social vulnerability in regional climate adaptation planning in Europe – Conceptions, operationalisations and shared challenges
Attention to social vulnerability in relation to climate change has grown, but its incorporation into adaptation planning practice remains underexplored. This study examines how social vulnerability is conceptualised and operationalised in regional climate adaptation planning across 12 European regions, and analyses interregional challenges to inform a socially just transition. Empirically, the study gathers data from stakeholders across 12 Europ…
Digital permeation of urban planning practice
The field of urban planning is currently undergoing a profound transformation driven by digital technologies. These are increasingly used to support and automate the planning process, and have the potential to reshape the nature of planning itself and impact the core planning values of equity, transparency, efficiency, and legitimacy. One pressing issue is the growing use of standards, not only in data formats, but also in the categories that des…
Geography (14 works) · Economic geography (7 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Environmental planning (6 works) · Rural development and sustainability (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (5 works) · Political science (5 works)