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Growing and Shrinking

Pixel and claims. Dessau Roßlau: After urban development according to a master plan had failed, new ideas had to be found to set the process in motion. According to the principle “Wo Gebäude fallen, entsteht Landschaft“ (i.e., Landscapes Arise Where Buildings Fall) the new landscape is formed pixel by pixel, poster: Heike Brückner, Kerstin Faber, Doreen Ritzau; 2004; Copyright: Bauhaus Dessau Foundation

Urban Redevelopment: Shrinking – Knowing How

The International Building Exhibition on Urban Redevelopment in Saxony-Anhalt 2010 is developing new future strategies for cities with declining populations.More ...
Magdeburg city centre renovation, Copyright: Wolfram Wallraf

Making Shrinking Cities Future-Proof: Urban Redevelopment in East and West

Since cities have existed they have been undergoing redevelopment.More ...
EM garden; Copyright: Tarika E. Hoffmann

Spatial Pioneers in Brandenburg – Negative Growth as Opportunity

The predictions for the peripheral regions of the sparsely populated East German states are alarming: in coming years they will lose up to 50 percent of their inhabitants. By Elisabeth SchwiontekMore ...
Mercado Santa Catarina, Barcelone, Cop: Tim Lilling

The Future of the Cities – A Collection Featuring Strategies for Urban Redevelopment

Everyone is talking about the “urban renaissance”. A review by Jürgen TietzMore ...

The City Has a Future

Germany's cities are in state of transition. However, there is no consensus on whether this is a positive development or not. How can we bring about the much-invoked 'urban renaissance'? By Harald BodenschatzMore ...
Recycled House; Copyright: Claus Asam

Creative Urban Renewal: A Second Life for the Prefabs

Researchers, planners and creative minds discover the potential of the old GDR prefabricated housing schemes. By Elisabeth SchwiontekMore ...

No Place to Lay His Head?
In Germany, the Reutilization of Churches Has just Begun


Noodles and prosecco at the Eucharist are not to everybody’s taste. But consecrated wafers have not been dispensed in Bielefeld’s Church of St. Martin for a long time now. By Jürgen TietzMore ...
Student Village Berlin, House 2, around 1960; Copyright: Studentendorf Berlin/Photo: Reinhard Friedrich

The Brittle Charm of Exposed Concrete – the Post-War Modern Style Put to the Test

The buildings of the post-war modern style are coming under pressure all around Germany. By Elisabeth SchwiontekMore ...

The future of the slab - Large GDR estates between demolition, exemplary redevelopment and cult object

The concrete-slab estates remain a challenge, and it is in its success in meeting this challenge that the quality of a differentiated redevelopment policy will be measured. By Paul SigelMore ...