Examining a new trend towards large-scale civic projects in Germany, this volume presents a selection of these groundbreaking enterprises. With an eye to issues of social diversity, civic integration and good design, these local examples provide universal models for future living conditions.

Large-scale projects today - a paradigm shirt in urban development? When large housing developments fell into disrepute, small projects became the model for the reconstruction of cities. Today, the broad range of the new generation of large-scale projects reflects a renaissance of the city. Reunification and globalization have initiated the development of new large-scale projects in Germany. Cities are seizing the opportunities provided by structural change, and many conversion sites are being redeveloped. These developments are about cities rather than about suburbs. Dealing with urban diversity and social heterogeneity, with integration and cohesion, with history and good design, these are the long-term tasks of urban development, no less in the projects presented in this publication. Large-scale projects are models for future living con- ditions. Their qualities can set standards and their shortcomings promote necessary learning processes. Large-scale projects can sketch generalizable images of the future of the European city.

Urban Development on a Large Scale-Twenty Projects in German Cities  Engelbert Lutke Daldrup and Peter Zlonicky

National Urban Development Policy: A Large-scale Project in Process  Ulrich Hatzfeld

A Special Type of Large-scale Project in Germany: the International Building Exhibitions

On the Genesis of Large-scale Projects in Germany Werner Durth in conversation with Peter Zlonicky

On the Projects in this Volume

Waterfront Cities

Paths to a Central Urban Quarter: HafenCity Hamburg Jorn Walter

A New City District on Stream: Rheinau Harbor Cologne  Bernd Streitberger

Transposition Maneuver in Germany's Third-largest Domestic Port: Media Harbor Dusseldorf Gregor Bonin

Reaching New Banks: Duisburg Inner Harbor  Michael Schwarze-Rodrian

Radiance over River and City: West Harbor Frankfurt am Main  Thomas Berge and Jill Anne Fladung

Urban Conversion

An Engine for Structural Change: The Bonn Government Quarter  Sigurd Trommer

A Model Reconstruction: Dresden's Inner City  Herbert FeBenmayr

A Network of Science and Industry, Media and Technology: Berlin Adlershof Joachim Sichter and Karen Hiort

From Europe's Most Productive Coal Mine to a Center for the Creative Industries: Zollverein Essen

  Hans-Jorgen Best and Roland Weiss

A New Center for Art and Creativity: The Dortmund U-Tower Ullrich Sierau, Eckhard Gerber and Susanne Linnebach

A Railroad Project Transforms the City: Stuttgart 21  Uwe Stuckenbrock

Projects for the Future of the Metropolis: IBA Hamburg 2013  Uli Hellweg

A New Symbol for the City: MARTa Herford  Peter Maria B6hm

New Neighborhoods

Reestablishing a District on the Riverside: Unterneustadt Kassel  Eckhard Jochum and Christian Kopetzki

Urban Development Writ Large: Hanover Kronsberg  Uta Boockhoff-Gries

A New District Emerges: Messestadt Riem (Trade Fair City), Munich Theo Bauernschmidt

From a Military Area to a First Address: Bornstedter Feld, Potsdam  Erich Jesse

A Model Sustainable Urban Development Project: The Quartier Vauban in Freiburg  Dieter Salomon

Users as Investors--a Model for Urban Qualities: The French Quarter in Tubingen Andreas Feldtkeller

Urban Progression in the Green Corridor: Nordraum Leipzig  Martin zur Nedden

The Prospects for Large-scale Projects  Kunibert Wachten

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