theory & concepts

GREENPASS-Certification for Biotope City Wienerberg

Kathrin Gaál, Deputy Mayor of the City of Vienna, and GREENPASS CEO Florian Kraus (from right to left) at the awarding of the Platinum certificate to the Biotope City Wienerberg neighbourhood on 21.6.2021 It is a special day - in two respects:Vienna is the world's...

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.

THE ISLAND OF THE WILD VIENNESE

An uninhabited island in the middle of the big city, where deer and beavers live, where grey herons and cormorants find rich fishing grounds, where marsupial tits build their elaborate nests? A romantic dream? Inner-city nature reserves or fallow land are under high...

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...

Sferen / Atmospheres – Sculpture exhibition

Night-birds, riverbeds, Japanese knotweed and the source of the Mississippi… With their work, the six artists of Sferen make the viewer aware of his relationship with the natural and urban environment.

Urban Mining Technical Soils for Biotope Cities

Pia Minixhofer, Bernhard Scharf, Sebastian Hafner, Thomas Romm Growing cities In the coming years, more and more people will live and work in cities (UN 2018). The accompanying need for more housing and infrastructure is causing construction activity to increase....

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...

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