This dissertation reflects on both the analysis of quality indicators for the identification of competencies and on the classification tools used to place German further vocational training courses into existing qualification frameworks, using the example of the field of engineering and study path “Supply Engineering”. The objective of this dissertation is to develop a competence model for “planning competence” that allows evaluation and classification of a range of competencies. This planning competence is determined by the categories “complexity”, “cross-linkage”, and “quality” of the process followed in the creation of certain planning documents. Of special focus in this dissertation is the planning competence and its (sub-)competencies exhibited by the college graduates in the study path “Supply Engineering” at the State College for Construction, Business and Logistics (State College) in Gotha / Thuringia. This planning competence ought to be evaluated, classified and placed into a qualification frame such as the European Qualification Frame (EQF). In order to do this, quality indicators are developed and applied to tender documents for a drinking water supply system in a kindergarten, which were presented by the college graduates as their final project. Using these indicators it is possible to identify the quality of these documents and consequently identify the planning competence of the future planning engineer. The quality of the plans is evaluated as a category and they are also looked at to see if they have a certain complexity. This category of complexity is defined as interconnected layers within a system, for example, regarding hot and cold water systems or the circulation water system. Cross-linkage is the third category, which determines both the planning of the project and the resulting planning competence. This cross-linkage is defined as the connection of the drinking water system to third parties, for instance to other planning projects, planning partners, or other technical systems such as heating or electrical systems. In addition, surveys among college graduates from the State College Gotha, their employers, and college alumni, shall indicate and bring to light certain competencies necessary for the planning of above mentioned systems and work as a planning engineer. Combining both the identified competencies of the exploration process using the above mentioned quality indicators and the results of the surveys, the author makes suggestions on how to classify and place the study path “Supply Engineering” at the State College Gotha / Thuringia and other German further vocational training courses into the EQF.

This dissertation reflects on both the analysis of quality indicators for the identification of competencies and on the classification tools used to place German further vocational training courses into existing qualification frameworks, using the example of the field of engineering and study path “Supply Engineering”. The objective of this dissertation is to develop a competence model for “planning competence” that allows evaluation and classification of a range of competencies. This planning competence is determined by the categories “complexity”, “cross-linkage”, and “quality” of the process followed in the creation of certain planning documents. Of special focus in this dissertation is the planning competence and its (sub-)competencies exhibited by the college graduates in the study path “Supply Engineering” at the State College for Construction, Business and Logistics (State College) in Gotha / Thuringia. This planning competence ought to be evaluated, classified and placed into a qualification frame such as the European Qualification Frame (EQF). In order to do this, quality indicators are developed and applied to tender documents for a drinking water supply system in a kindergarten, which were presented by the college graduates as their final project. Using these indicators it is possible to identify the quality of these documents and consequently identify the planning competence of the future planning engineer. The quality of the plans is evaluated as a category and they are also looked at to see if they have a certain complexity. This category of complexity is defined as interconnected layers within a system, for example, regarding hot and cold water systems or the circulation water system. Cross-linkage is the third category, which determines both the planning of the project and the resulting planning competence. This cross-linkage is defined as the connection of the drinking water system to third parties, for instance to other planning projects, planning partners, or other technical systems such as heating or electrical systems. In addition, surveys among college graduates from the State College Gotha, their employers, and college alumni, shall indicate and bring to light certain competencies necessary for the planning of above mentioned systems and work as a planning engineer. Combining both the identified competencies of the exploration process using the above mentioned quality indicators and the results of the surveys, the author makes suggestions on how to classify and place the study path “Supply Engineering” at the State College Gotha / Thuringia and other German further vocational training courses into the EQF.

Wie funktioniert Stadtplanung in einem politischen Zeitalter, in dem Dialogfähigkeit eine Tugend und eine Notwendigkeit zugleich ist? Die Stadtplanung, die als institutionalisierte Technokratie zielorientierte Effektivität anstrebt und doch schwer fassbar ist, wurde zum Gegenstand ständiger öffentlicher Anfechtungen und obliegt einer immer häufigeren politischen Rechenschaftspflicht. Mit der unablässigen Forderung nach mehr städtischer Demokratie verschieben sich die Schwerpunkte und Wertvorstellungen der Stadtplanung hin zu mehr Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Partizipation und Transparenz. In der vorliegenden Dissertation wird ein pragmatischer, von der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie inspirierter Forschungsansatz verwendet, um die zum Teil widersprüchlichen Auswirkungen des planerischen Strebens nach urbaner Lebensqualität im Zusammenspiel mit den öffentlichen Maßnahmen zu untersuchen. Unter dem Einfluss einer sich neu definierenden Norm, veränderten Werten und zunehmender Bürger:innenbeteiligung wird Stadtplanung als ein Ensemble von Situationen und Ereignissen beleuchtet, welche durch das Aufgreifen aktueller Fragen die Öffentlichkeit erreichen. Durch die Gegenüberstellung von drei verschiedenen Stadtverwaltungen -–Lissabon, Wien und Zürich–- und deren politischen Hintergründe, analysiert die Dissertation empirisch die Entstehung städtischer Herausforderungen als kollektives Anliegen angesichts der verschiedenen Formen öffentlichen Handelns in der Stadtplanung. Mit anderen Worten, es werden Beispiele der Stadtplanung in einer Vielzahl von Erscheinungsformen und Konfigurationen untersucht, indem analysiert wird, wie das Vorhandensein verschiedenster Weltanschauungen zu einer gemeinsamen Expertise hybridisiert wird. Zu diesem Zweck wird die Stadtplanung nicht als eine feste Modalität betrachtet, die zu téchne oder démos gehört, oder periodisch definiert wird; sondern als öffentliche Angelegenheit und Gemeingut, wobei hinterfragt wird, wie „gutes“ städtisches Leben an der Schnittstelle von Politik, Wissenschaft und Ethik problematisiert wird. / How does city planning work in a political age where being dialogic constitutes a virtue and imperative at once? Known as institutionalised technocracy and bounded polity, city planning has come to be the object of continuous acts of public contestation, and the subject of an increasing prevalence of political accountability. With a relentless demand for increased urban democracy, the conduits and implications of city planning are reassembled into novel layers of visibility, worth, transparency and discernibility. The present dissertation endorses a pragmatist-inspired ANT-lens to examine the adverse itineraries of planning’s pursuit to achieve good city life, and what sustains its current co- constitutions as a public action. Subject to normative shifts, value variations and civic engagements, city planning is investigated as an ensemble of situations and events that involves the particular urgent attribution of problems to publics. By juxtaposing political backgrounds from three diverse city administrations –– Lisbon, Vienna, and Zurich–– the dissertation empirically inquires the emergence of urban issues as collective concerns, in the face of planning’s various modes of public action. In other words, samples of city planning across a variety of expressions and configurations are examined, by analysing how the presence of many truths are framed, counter-framed and hybridised into shared expertise. To this end, city planning is studied not as a fixed modality belonging to téchne or démos, or as a periodic abyss, but as public matter and common good, questioning how good urban living is problematised at the intersection of politics, science and ethics.