by Biotope City | Apr 23, 2025 | Architecture & Urban development, Categorieën, News
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...
by Biotope City | Mar 3, 2025 | Architecture & Urban development, Categorieën, News
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...
by Biotope City | Dec 7, 2024 | Architecture & Urban development, Categorieën, News
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 We now know how important the greening of cities is for the microclimate; tree...
by Helga Fassbinder | Nov 29, 2024 | Architecture & Urban development, Categorieën, Gallery, News
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...
by Biotope City | Nov 7, 2024 | Architecture & Urban development, Categorieën, News
Webinar by Florian Schmid, City of Vienna on the youtube channel of Biotope City Journal Mini-forests, forest islands or so-called ‘Tiny Forests’ are currently on everyone’s lips. A few years ago, Vienna also began to explore the principles of the...
by Helga Fassbinder | Oct 28, 2024 | Architecture & Urban development, Gallery, News
Presentation at the art exhibition of the group ‘open lines – art research on coexixtence’, RFD Insel Artspace Innsbruck, Oct. 2024 Is there a fundamental flaw in our Western thinking that has led us into the current complex crisis of climate change,...