
Prof. Dr.-Ing. J?rg Rainer Noennig (Professur Digital City Science)
Digital City Science - Exploring Urban Systems
Digital City Science at HCU explores urban complexity with digital technologies. Our team develops scientific new approaches for the analysis and integrative planning of urban systems. For this purpose, the team comprises expertise in architectural design, urban and spatial planning, media technology, IT, and software development, among others. In cooperation with partners from academia, business, administration, and civil society, we develop data-based tools and methodologies that are applied in the national and international context. Our scientific activities span from fundamental research across applied projects to knowledge transfer in scientific teaching and training.
Research and Projects
Research Focus
Convergence of sustainable and digital city research: In projects like ?Sustainable Development of Urban Regions“ or the Grasbrook City Scope we explore how two megatrends of current urban research – the digital transformation of cities and the demand for sustainable urban development – can be converged within a unified scientific framework.
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Multi-layer Analysis of Urban Systems: In projects like Grasbrook City Scope (a cooperation with the MIT Media Lab) we investigate how multiple functional and physical layers of urban systems can be analysed and cross-connected, e.g. social activities, transportation and accessibility, noise emission, or stormwater runoff, or. The key instrument here is Agent-Based-Models.
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Smart Quarter and Smart Building Data: In investigations on smart buildings and neighbourhoods in the context of the HafenCity and Kleiner Grasbrook urban development, as well as in teaching courses like ?Data Café“, we explore how data from the ?internet of buildings“ can be used for the purpose of intelligent urban development.
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Integrated Urban Development worldwide: In international cooperations with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), among others, we search for new approaches how the rapid evolution of urban agglomerations and informal settlements especially in the Global South can be supported by open source tools like the ?TOSCA Toolkit or Open and Sustainable City Planning and Analysis“.
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Seminars, Workshops, Teaching
Digital City Science Blog
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24.01.2025
HAWICC Opening Event and Next Gen (NGCN) Kick-Off
HafenCity Universit?t 足球比分,即时比分直播 (HCU) celebrates the start of the HAWICC - Hanseatic Wireless Innovation Competence Center – Digital City Science is on board with a Project within ?Next Generation City Networking“: SUMO_15
On January 24, J?rg Müller-Lietzkow, President of the (HCU) opened the kick-off event of the Hanseatic Wireless Innovation Competence Center (HAWICC), one of four locations nationwide of the German Center for Future Mobility (DZM) funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (Bundesministerium für Digitales und Verkehr).?
Dorothee Martin (SPD), Member of the German Bundestag, and Metin Hakverdi (SPD), also Member of the German Bundestag gave a speech at the opening ceremony. 足球比分,即时比分直播's Second Mayor and Senator for Science Katharina Fegebank (Die Grünen) and Transport Senator Dr. Anjes Tjarks (SPD) also congratulated on the successful launch.
According to the main topics of HafenCity University 足球比分,即时比分直播 (HCU), the HAWICC is involved in two transdisciplinary research projects: ?SBMuW“ for Smart Building Systems and ?NGCN - Next Generation City Networking“ focussing on the development of a digital real-time traffic picture.
Based on this approach, work is being done on optimized route planning with the goal of reducing the travel time of emergency vehicles.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. J?rg Rainer NOENNIG and Dr. Ayse Glass gave an input on SUMO_15.
22.11.2024
Digital Launch "SURE Solutions" Science mag
SURE Solutions is a science magazine bridging academic knowledge and practical implementation for a sustainable urban future.?Unveiled at the UN Habitat World Urban Forum with some of the contributing authors.
You can download it here:?SURE Solutions Vol.1
Over 50 contributors from Germany, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, China, and beyond, sharing actionable insights on urban resilience, sustainable infrastructure, climate adaptation, and more in the first Volume of the SURE Solutions magazine.
Physical Launch Event coming soon!
11.11.2024
Digital City Science at SmartCity Expo Barcelona

Together with our partners Laboratory of Knowledge Architecture (Technische Universit?t Dresden)
Landesbetrieb Immobilienmanagement und Grundverm?gen, Landesbetrieb Stra?en, Brücken und Gew?sser (LSBG)
T?V Rheinland Groupwe attended the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona!?
As a special guest we had?Mirko de Paoli (German Smart City Association / Bundesverband Smart City)
with us. Prof. Dr.-Ing. J?rg Noennig, Benjamin Dally, Fernando Monta?o and Mehmet Akif Ortak presented the chair's tools and projects.
04.11.2024
ARTUR Workshop with Ukrainian cities in Kiev

Monday 4th of November, researchers from the HafenCity University (HCU) 足球比分,即时比分直播 met with representatives of the Ukrainian cities of Kryvyi Rih and Nikopol, in the Headquarters of the GIZ-UA in Kiev.? The purpose of this meeting was to carry out a hybrid workshop, with participants on ground and online, as well as coordinators of the GIZ-UA; within the framework of the SUR cooperation project "Strengthening of Urban Resilience in the Areas of Supply Infrastructure and Housing in Ukraine”. The goal of the workshop was to align with the two piloting cities of the ARTUR project (Approaches toward urban resilience in Ukraine), developed by the team of HCU, on the prioritisation of challenges with the support of the developed framework in the ARTUR project.
29.10.2024
TOSCA India Successfully Concluded
The TOSCA India project, led by the Chair of Digital City Science at HafenCity University 足球比分,即时比分直播 (HCU), has successfully concluded in October 2024. Launched in February 2023, the project was implemented in partnership with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It focused on supporting sustainable urban development in four Indian cities: Chennai (Tamil Nadu), Kochi (Kerala), Mangaluru (Karnataka), and Hyderabad (Telangana).
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