Impressions of IBA Hamburg 2013
This year the city of Hamburg (Germany) was the host of the IBA (The International Building Exhibition) and the IGS (The International Garden Show). Both events where situated in the city district of...
View Articlesecond hand spaces: Using Vacancy as a Resource for Sustainable Urban...
Michael Ziehl and Sarah Oßwald Within urban transformation plenty of industrial areas and ordinary buildings fall lastingly vacant. What is widely considered as a problem for urban development can...
View Article100in1Day
You see potential in your neighborhood, but afraid to start something alone? Let’s get inspired by this idea and make it alive in your city! The event “1oo in 1 day” is a global initiative with a...
View ArticleR-Urban
Today the world is facing severe problems such as global warming, depletion of fossil fuels or other natural resources. Additional to that economic recession, population changes,...
View ArticleSOHO IN OTTAKRING
SOHO in Ottakring is an urban art project that started 1999 as part of an artist´s initiative in the “Brunnen Viertel” of Ottakring, Vienna´s 16th district. The “Brunnen Viertel” located close to the...
View ArticleBike Snake in CPH
(c) http://dw.dk A new bridge for bikes in Copenhagen is filling a gap in the dense bike path network plus looks also very good. You could say typical danish or only well done and hopefully some other...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing the City
Urban development as a process of participation Next Hamburg is an independent think-tank for future urban development in Hamburg. The project relies on the voluntary cooperation of citizens and local...
View ArticleNy Nørreport Station
© Bo Bolther / arkitekturbilleder.dk Nørreport, the busiest station in Denmark. Around 250.000 people a day are getting off and on by s-train, metro, bus or also bike. The old Nørreport has had its...
View Article“Wagnis” / Participation and planning
Try a bit of “Wagnis” The housing project of the cooperative “Wagnis” is located on the site of the former funk barracks, the “Domagk” area in the north of Munich. After the barracks were abandoned,...
View ArticleWe-Urbanism: The City as a Community Project
Future for the Samtweber Viertel in Krefeld / Germany Active community work and the renewal of the Old velvet weaving as impulse for the district © Montag Stiftung The development of buildings and...
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