Experiences with Nature-Inclusive Building
ir. Maike van Stiphout, landscape architect, Amsterdam Free webinar Tuesday, Febrary 10, 2026, 17.00 hrs The temperature-reducing effects of greening in urban spaces are, fortunately, now widely known. But what does "greening" actually mean? Chlorophyll isn't a...
Greywater Use – Potentials in and Around Buildings
Webinar with Oliver Pongracz and Susanne Formanek Now available on our YouTube channel: Greywater Use – Potentials in/on and around Buildings In densely built cities, water is becoming an increasingly precious resource. At the same time, a large amount of...
Urban Expansion in Munich: The Role of Cooperatives for Social Cohesion under the Guidelines ‘Sustainability and Ecology’
Dipl.Ing. Wolfgang Heidenreich Wolfgang Heidenreich examines the influence of activities by young housing cooperatives on new Munich urban districts, through which the implementation of the goals 'ecology/biodiversity' and 'climate protection' in the areas of...
Obituary for Hinrich Baller
The news of the death of Hinrich Baller, one of the great architects of the past century, reached us with a delay. He was one of the few in the architectural world who devoted himself to the topic of integrating greenery into buildings from the very beginning of...
Between Concrete and Flowers – Wild Bees and Wasps in the City
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQr6BYWGk90&t=11s Zoom webinar with Dr. Dominique Zimmermann, Natural History Museum Vienna The much-lauded greenery in the fight against urban heating does not come alone: there is no flora without fauna - and that includes...
A Plan B for the Climate – Overcoming Climate Change With the Forces of Nature
em.Prof. Dr. Gerd Ganteför, University of Konstanz Lecture on the Youtube Channel of Biotope City Journal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u73xWdNBNw Man-made climate change is real, it is due to the increasing concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, which is mainly...
Urban Development Program for the Green City of the Future : Zaandam
by architect Mathias Lehner, MSc Mathias Lehner reports on his work on the 2040-2050 urban development plan for Zaanstad, a neighboring city of Amsterdam with 160,000 inhabitants that is set to grow rapidly to 200,000. This spatial vision for the future, entitled...
The Healing Garden Hamburg – Nature Cyclical Impulses for the Urban World
The rapid urbanization and digitalization of our living environments increasingly alienates us from nature, thereby impairing our physical, mental, and emotional well-being. The association “heilende Stadt e.V.” is establishing a model project called the Healing Garden Hamburg in the Altona People’s Park, focusing on nurturing the relationship between nature and humans – as a physical-sensory experience, ‘holistic’ (from the Greek ‘holos’ = whole) with a new “nature cyclical” mindset.
Renaturation in the City
DI Wolfgang Suske, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna The Restoration Act obliges EU member states to take measures to restore destroyed ecosystems. At least 20% of the EU's land and sea areas are to be restored by 2030, with the aim of...
Green Pre-Shading of Glass Facades – Preliminary Findings From the GLASGrün Project
Webinar Tuesday, December 17, 2024, 17.00 hrs Prof. DI Dr. Rosemarie Stangl, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Institute of Engineering Biology and Landscaping https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5ithJ17o1M We now know how important the greening...