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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...
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...
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...
Existing Buildings as a Resource – the Green Bunker in St. Pauli, Hamburg
Tuesday, december 3, 2024, 17.00 hrs webinar for free by Dipl.Ing. Marco Schmidt, TU Berlin This huge concrete structure from the Second World War has been transformed into a green Bunker with a 560- meter green mountain path and a 1,400 m2 garden at the top, as well...
Wiener Wäldchen” – About the Application of the Tiny Forest Concept in Vienna
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 Miyawaki method for...
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