Biotope City Journal

BIOTOPE CITY is a multilingual journal about the City as Nature. The journal offers a platform for experiences and experiments that show a successful integration of nature in the city. It is looking for new forms of urbanity which combine higt density with space for nature, for flora and fauna, creating an integral sustainable urban environment and a healthy living climate. BIOTOPE CITY is edited by the Foundation Biotope City.

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offers a platform for experiments and experiences that show a successful integration of nature and city. Looking for new forms for urbanity which combine high density with space for nature, for flora and fauna, creating an integral sustainable environment and a healthy living climate.
will bring theoretical reflections, research results, projects and experiences from different cities in different countries.
will stimulate engaged discussion and practice among all concerned with the construction of sustainable urban living conditions: architects, urban planners, traffic planners, civil engineers, landscape architects,housing managers, biologists, sociologists, politicians e. a.

Architecture & Urban development

What does biodiversity cost the taxpayer?

Unaffordable, especially now in view of the pandemic’s national debt? Christoph Küffer calculates the costs against the profits using Switzerland as an example.

First forest tower planted in the Netherlands

Jannie Landa, Tom van Duuren and Harrie van Helmond Two years ago, we wrote an article on the start of construction of the Trudotoren on StrijpS in Eindhoven. Stefano Boeri's design is a variant of the Bosco verticale in Milan, but in this case built within the social...

Manifesto “BUILDING FOR NATURE” by environmental organisations and the largest construction companies in the Netherlands

"Nature measures must become an obligatory part of housing construction, according to the postulate of nature and environmental organisations and the largest construction companies in the Netherlands. They want nature to become a "natural component" of all new...

10 Theses on the sustainable, climate-friendly City of the Future

Climate change is on everyone's lips. At first glance, today's climate change, beginning with industrialisation in the 19th century, is a local / regional / Earth-wide increase in temperature and weather extremes. But more and more people feel that serious changes are...

The Biotope City Quartier Wienerberg – what is so special with it?

Biotope City Wienerberg is a neighbourhood that has broken new ground in many areas. In this it is part of the great tradition of Viennese housing construction, which for 100 years has repeatedly gone far beyond what was common practice in housing construction at the...

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