Between Concrete and Flowers – Wild Bees and Wasps in the City

Between Concrete and Flowers – Wild Bees and Wasps in the City

Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 17.00 hrs 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 insects. Cities are often...

Urban Development Program for the Green City of the Future : Zaandam

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 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

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...

The production of the future: urban planning in civil society

Preliminary remark: This text was written in 1995 and published in 1997 in the anthology ‚Zivile Gesellschaft‘ (Civil Society) edited by Schmals/Heinelt. Reading this text now, nearly 30 years later, I am amazed at how accurately the necessity of the urban development...

Climate Change and Target-Oriented Adaptation Measures 

Climate Change and Target-Oriented Adaptation Measures 

Prof. Helga Kromp-Kolb, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Now available on our YouTube channel:  Climate Change and Target-Oriented Measures If you subscribe to the YOUTUBE CHANNEL BIOTOPE-CITY JOURNAL, you won't miss anything, and you will be...