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“Reconstructionism”: A Strategy to Improve Outdated Attempts of Modernist Post‐War Planning?
(2023-02-23)
Recently, Germany has seen a series of inner‐city projects that tend to reconstruct pre‐war buildings or ensembles lost in the Second World War after demolishing earlier attempts to redefine the place in which they had been located with the means of modernist architecture. While those modernist buildings are often seen as “eyesores” by ordinary citizens advocating their demolition, the newer reconstructionist projects are criticized heavily by architects and planners not only because they often bring along revisionist ...
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Mobility Hubs: A Way Out of Car Dependency Through a New Multifunctional Housing Development?
(2023-07-25)
Today’s urban design of new quarters in the fringes of German metropolises shows a renaissance of the garage building as a cluster for car parking. In contrast to the past, parking garages are planned as multifunctional “mobility hubs.” Planners enrich them with new mobility and sharing options and incorporate sports or social infrastructure facilities on the roof and the ground floor, thus contributing to vibrant neighborhoods. In contrast to the internationally renowned example of Nordhavn (Copenhagen), we observe ...