A focus of urban development in the coming decades
16. July 2024
The Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg today approved the “Magistralen Masterplan”, a masterplan developed by ASTOC ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS together with urban catalyst, berchtoldkrass space&options, ARGUS Stadt und Verkehr and bloomimages on behalf of the city.
Hamburg’s main thoroughfares are both main roads and places to live and work. They are subject to enormous changes due to a wide range of requirements. With a city-wide master plan, Hamburg is the first metropolis to address the future role of its 12 arterial roads.
Dr. Peter Tschentscher, First Mayor of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, sums up in his foreword to the Magistralen Master Plan:
“One focus of the Senate’s urban development in the coming decades will be Hamburg’s main roads. Twelve main transport axes connect the inner city with the outer districts and the neighboring metropolitan region. They offer good transport infrastructure, housing, commercial space and versatile public spaces that are to be restructured and used for the further modernization of Hamburg. In the future, the Magistralen are to be developed into attractive urban spaces that go beyond their transport significance. The master plan shows their potential, describes visions for the future and identifies specific measures to achieve them. It thus pursues the strategy of preserving Hamburg’s historically evolved structure, but using the infrastructure more efficiently and gaining new areas for housing, commerce and public life.”
ASTOC has already earned an excellent reputation in and for Hamburg in other urban master and framework planning projects, most recently with the framework planning for the Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld, Campus West, previously the HafenCity Hamburg master plan and the Diebsteich urban framework planning.
The Magistralen master plan can be downloaded as a PDF file from the hamburg.de website. The press release from 16.07.2024 can also be found there.