Master Plan for the Expansion of Hamburg’s Downtown Area HafenCity expands Hamburg’s city center by 40 percent and connects the historic fabric of the Speicherstadt with a new, flood-protected urban environment along the Elbe. Historical aerial photographs from 1930 illustrate the former divide between the organically grown city center and
An urban strategy for Cologne How do we want to live in 2030? The city strategy ‘Cologne Perspectives 2030+’ provides answers. Like many large cities in Germany and abroad, Cologne has already had to deal with far-reaching transformation processes. Population growth, demographic change, climate change, climate protection, economic structural change,
Spatial model for structural change in the Rhine lignite mining area How can Europe’s largest landscaping site master the challenge of structural change? Lignite mining has shaped the Rhine mining area since the 1950s. The phase-out of lignite will significantly change this region, and not just through the economic reprofiling
A village development process The development pressure on rural areas is increasing. Pathways to coherent development perspectives and useful management instruments are highly individual and must be found together. The housing pressure on rural areas in the Karlsruhe technology region is increasing. After the core city of Rastatt has been
A master plan for Hamburg’s main arteries City entrance, first address, district center and at the same time caesura, a barrier and transit space. If you want to shape the growth of the city, you can’t avoid the main thoroughfares. Twelve arterial roads across all themes and locations in the
Strategic development concept The large-scale infrastructure transformation triggers a comprehensive redesign of the Emscher river landscape. Along an 85 km length of a rehabilitated river, nature, new connections and settlement areas are being created Flowing along an 85km river course the Ruhr region, the Emscher river connects 13 cities, derelict
A strategic control instrument for urban planning Quality instead of quantity: Cologne is growing upwards – with moderation, planning and responsibility. With the Height Development Concept (HEK) for the inner city of Cologne, the city is meeting the challenges of urban growth in a densely built-up metropolis steeped in history,