urban ecology

BIOTOPE CITY WIENERBERG – a Biotope City for Vienna

In Wien entsteht derzeit ein Quartier nach dem Leitbild ‘Biotope City’ – sehr dicht, sehr grün, eine neue Heimat für Homo sapiens, Flora und Fauna…

Biotope City – The dense City as Nature

What does this mean? Is this a real option? Helga Fassbinder shows yes, and there will beno escape from this concept…

Dach- und Fassadenbegrünung – neue Lebensräume

Neu erschienen – interessanter Bericht des Bundesamts für Naturschutz über urbane Biodiversität. Verfasser: Sebastian Schmauck

Wild or not: which do you prefer?

Wild or not: which do you prefer? Leora Rosner Wild gardens in our steel, glass and brick jungles offer a softer view. Placed along facades where one would generally never see a garden, because of lack of interest, wild gardens would help create a greener...

A BIOTOPE CITY QUARTIER FOR VIENNA

In Vienna, a ‘Biotope City’ district is currently under construction. A neighborhood based on the principles of Biotope City: the realization of a dense urban neighborhood as nature in a close juxtaposition with human, their homes, nearby shops, school, kindergarten, and species of flora and fauna, each with their own, closely interlinked sphere of life.

A Wall in the Change of Seasons

A Wall in the Change of Seasons Irene Zluwa The contribution of Irene Zluwa is the result of a study of plants that have a good chance of surviving wall greening. This is certainly interesting for those who want to realize greening the grey house walls in densely...

THE PIONEERS OF URBAN GREEN: HARRY GLÜCK

He is the grand old man of the Austrian social housing architecture, famous for Alterlaa, mass housing high-rise buildings, without any problems, but only highly satisfied tenants. By Helga Fassbinder

URBAN FARMING & BUREAUS: ‘Zuidpark’ in Amsterdam

URBAN FARMING & BUREAUS: 'Zuidpark' in Amsterdam - The largest vegetable roof of Europe - the results of one year experience Helga Fassbinder Urban farming is in! In addition to tomatoes and lettuce on balconies and rooftops,...

WILDLIFE IN THE CITY

The formula “The City as Nature” asks for a definition how one understands by nature. Where to start? Where does it belong? The question is explosive, especially among biologists but also among ordinary people: when nature has to be saved: which one? The nature in the state of hundred years ago?