In the general socio-political discussion of the topic of education within the last decade, it has become apparent that space and the urban context are important dimensions of education, and that education is becoming more important for urban development. This becomes particularly evident in concepts for so-called local educational landscapes (in German “Bildungslandschaften”). Local educational landscapes are long-term cooperations between different formal and informal stakeholders in the fields of education, upbringing and child care at a regional, municipal or local level. Although a close connection between educational policy and urban development policy seems necessary for this, the field of research on educational landscapes is currently lacking a discussion of urban planning considerations in education, empirical research as well as research from the spatial and planning sciences. These research gaps are the starting points of the research project “Local Educational Landscapes and Urban Development“. The project’s aim is to examine systematically and empirically the contextual and spatial interfaces and interlacings between education and urban development. The paper to be presented at the conference will discuss contextual interfaces, linkages and interdependencies of educational policy and urban development policy in the context of local educational landscapes in Germany. The aim of the contribution is to define cross-sectoral issues and discussion threads that are related to both educational policy and urban development policy. The main research questions are: • Which contextual interfaces and interlacings exist between education and urban development at the federal, state and municipal level? • Which aims and strategies of action addressing cross-cutting issues of education and urban development are discussed within the two policy fields? • Which meanings and significance do stakeholders in education and urban development attribute to the different common and overlapping thematic areas?

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