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Volume 5 |
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Urban Redevelopment
Grasping Opportunities to Create the City of the Future
Editor: Grit Bertelsmann
Authors: Wolfgang Tiefensee (Federal Minister for Transport, Construction and Urban Development), Dr. Reiner Klingholz (Director of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development), Prof. Dr. Heinrich Mäding (Head of the German Institute for Urban Studies), Michael Bräuer (architect and urban planner, chairman of the jury for the "Urban Redevelopment in Eastern Germany" competition), Udo Bode (Büro Bode-Williams+Partner, BDLA spokesman for urban development planning), Lutz Freitag (President of the GdW Federal Association of German Housing and Real Estate Companies), Dr. Albrecht Buttolo (Saxony Minister of the Interior), Gerd Reinhardt/Hermann Sträb (Mayor of Leinefelde-Worbis/GRAS urban planner), Dorit Baumeister (architect, leader of the Spirit of Zuse e.V. project), Jann Jakobs (Lord Mayor of Potsdam), Dr. Michael Freytag (Hamburg Senator for Urban Development), Prof. Christiane Thalgott (Munich urban planning councilor).
"Germany is shrinking and aging". As a result of falling birth rates and increasing life expectancy, the German population is older than ever before. In addition, there is huge migration – from East to West and from structurally weak rural regions to the affluent suburban belts of the big cities. These demographic changes will have an enormous impact on the nature of the cities in years to come. The municipalities face the challenge of revitalizing existing city quarters and bringing urban flair to new residential districts. This is a challenge that affects all aspects of the urban society – from urban planning and the work of housing cooperatives to social infrastructure, landscape planning and project development. This volume in the series uses future-oriented examples to show the outstanding results that have already been achieved in several towns and cities. |
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City by the Water
New Opportunities for Municipalities and Tourism
Supervised by Prof. Dr. Heiner Haass with the support of the Federation of German Towns in Cologne, the German Association of Towns and Municipalities in Bonn and the "Lebendige Stadt" Foundation in Hamburg. This study was part of a research project of the Water Sports / Water Tourism research group at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences.
Many municipalities know little about the potential and opportunities that offer themselves to towns and cities "by the water". Most towns were originally set up directly on or close to a river, yet today they have often literally "turned their back" on the water – with the result that the nearby rivers and lakes are seldom incorporated in the development of the location. The study takes a closer look at this problem complex, in particular with the goal of identifying, analyzing and outlining the leisure and tourism potential of urban development in towns and cities that lie on rivers and waterways.
Available from Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei GmbH, Frankenallee 71-81, 60327 Frankfurt/Main, price 19.90 euros
Phone: (0) 69 75 01 0, Fax: (0) 69 75 01 48 77
or on the Internet at www.societaets-verlag.de |
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The Humane Market Economy
Entrepreneurs Take On Responsibility
Commemorative publication to mark the 95th birthday of Prof. Dr. h.c. Werner Otto
Editors: Robert Heinemann and Dr. Andreas Mattner
Does the social market economy have a future? Can it survive at the interface of globalization and demographic change? What can individual entrepreneurs do to give the market economy a human face - and why should they do it? Leading authors from the worlds of politics, business and science provide controversial answers to these and other burning topics relating to the social market economy. They include German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder with an introduction, former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt with his hypothesis that "predatory capitalism can destroy the open society" and CDU chief Angela Merkel with a contribution entitled "In the Spirit of Erhard – Commitment to the Social Market Economy". The publication also contains essays by Dr. Michael Otto ("Sustainable Economic Activity in the Era of Globalization"), Alexander Otto ("Companies as Driving Forces for Vibrant Cities"), Harvard professor Michael E. Porter ("Good Deeds as a Competitive Advantage") and former Texaco CEO James W. Kinnear ("The Importance of Ethics in Corporate Management "). Further authors include Saxony Minister-President Prof. Dr. Georg Milbradt, Brandenburg Minister-President Matthias Platzeck, Hamburg's Governing Mayor Ole von Beust, Cologne Lord Mayor Fritz Schramma, Leipzig Lord Mayor Wolfgang Tiefensee, former Karstadt-Quelle CEO Wolfgang Urban and "Zeit" publisher Dr. Michael Naumann.
The commemorative publication is available from Frankfurter Societäts-Druckerei GmbH, Frankenallee 71-81, 60327 Frankfurt/Main, price 19.90 euros
Phone: (0) 69 75 01 0, Fax: (0) 69 75 01 48 77
or on the Internet at www.societaets-verlag.de |
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Grüngürtel Frankfurt, City of Frankfurt – Environment Office
Project management and realisation: Klaus Hoppe, City of Frankfurt
Edited by: Annette Strucken
In November 2001, a two-day special-interest symposium was held at Frankfurt Architecture Museum to mark the tenth anniversary of the GrünGürtel (“greenbelt”). Experts from various disciplines were invited to outline ideas for the development of the GrünGürtel area in Frankfurt during the next decade. After the first ten years, the objective remains the same: to bring new vibrancy and vitality to everyday life while maintaining and improving overall quality standards but without losing sight of key goals. The outcome of these deliberations is documented in this volume in extended and revised form.
The volume can be ordered from Societäts-Druckerei GmbH in Frankfurt
Frankenallee 71-81, 60327 Frankfurt/Main
Phone +49 69 7501-0, Fax +49 69 7501-4877
or on the Internet at www.societaets-verlag.de
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"City squares in Lyon – strategies for developing outdoor areas in inner cities. Parameters for a vibrant city based on the example of modern, metropolitan square design"
Author: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dittmar Machule and Claudia Köster
In collaboration with Anne-Sophie Mas, Dipl.-Ing. Katrin Wilken
TUHH, Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
Using Lyon as an example, this study focuses on modern, vibrant outdoor areas in major cities that represent a new urban culture. The process from civic planning concept to a bustling real-life square is a long one. It involves many people and only ends in successful implementation following a high level of effort and commitment.
The study shows how the traffic-related, functional, legal and financial problems were solved and how the ideas to re-design the outdoor areas were put into practice. In addition, the civic researchers from TU Hamburg-Harburg try to find out whether the experiences gained during the project can be transferred to the development of large squares and outdoor areas in German cities.
The volume can be ordered from summer 2003 from
Societäts-Druckerei GmbH in Frankfurt
Frankenallee 71-81, 60327 Frankfurt/Main
Phone +49 69 7501-0, Fax +49 69 7501-4877
or on the Internet at www.societaets-verlag.de
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