RURBANCE - Rural-urban Cooperations and Governance Strategies. Jörg Schröder

RURBANCE
as EU-project funded within the Alpine Space Programme, developed by 14 partners from 6 countries led by the Lombardy Region, is aiming at rural-urban inclusive governance strategies and tools for the sustainable development of deeply transforming Alpine territories. RURBANCE collects metropolises around and in the Alps (Milan, Munich, Zurich, Graz, Ljubljana, Grenoble, Turin, Verona) and rural areas connected to them as project-partnership and case-studies. In Germany the Institute of Regional Building and Urban Planning of Leibniz Universität Hannover as scientific partner for the project is cooperating with the regional development board of the Prealpine region Allgäu, and with the European Metropolitan Region Munich.
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Cross Scale spatial strategies in the alpine space. Sarah Hartmann

The alpine space as field of action of alpine building culture is marked by great differences formed by buildings, settlements and land use. The term Alpine Building Culture does not dissociate buildings in the Alps from the adjoining regions; it is about mutual challenges, lying in the geographical performance of trends and a possible transferability of ideas and procedures. This challenges prevail on different scales in urban and as well in rural regions. A rising interest for challenges and potentials of the alpine space in general, and its building culture in particular, can be clearly recognized– exemplarily shown by the number of research and development projects dealing with it. But the need of energetic renovations and at the same time the request for maintaining the cultural heritage raises questions.
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AGROPOLIS Munich-Freiham. 10 Steps to a new Food Supplied Neighbourhood. Kerstin Hartig

1. Rediscovering Harvest for Urban Life
In 2009 Agropolis won the competition "Open Scale. Young and Local Ideas" launched by the Department of Urban Planning and Building Regulation of the City of Munich. Open Scale asked for new ideas for Munich's urban development. Open Scale has been supported by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development in the framework of the National Urban Development Programme, as well as by urban initiatives, enterprises and property developers.
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Designing the periphery of Munich – strategies for the regional city.
Sanna Richter, Anke Schmidt, Henrik Schultz

Munich is a growing city. The Demografiebericht München predicts a population growth of almost ten percent until 2020 and of 15 percent until 2030 (a plus of around 140.000/215.000 inhabitants). From 2006 to 2011 the rental prices for new rents rose again by over twelve percent, as German journal Stern reports. Even for those with a good income it is often easier to find a job in Munich than an apartment. At the same time there isn’t much space left for building houses within the city borders. Thus in 2011 the city of Munich invited tenders for four studies to find out how to integrate more housing in the cityscape in the long-term. The studies elaborated on different strategies such as densification, restructuring and the extension of the city. 
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The Regional City. From residing to living. Miriam Mlecek

Introduction
To refresh our perspective of the city and to connect the smart city factors and the natural resources agenda with an emphasis on the cities´ potential of resilience we need to include a comprehensive approach to consider everything the city consists of, produces, expels and demands- and to look at the reality of the city and its implications for design and planning. A victim of the urban era euphoria, challenges beyond the major cities fall into oblivion. However, a large proportion of people are living in the periphery. Although now, designs for intermediate cities, sprawl and Edge Cities are on the rise, there is no current vision or conception for these locations.
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Pioneer Urbanism and the Ambiguity of Governing Temporary Uses in Berlin. Christian Haid

Vacant buildings, underused lots, empty sites, fallow lands, overgrown wastelands, abandoned factories, warehouses and infrastructural sites - all these places have become characteristic features of Berlin’s urban landscape and are a result of both the massive ruination of the city after World War II and the deindustrialization in the second half of the 20th century.  After reunification, these places have become playgrounds of various kinds of informal practices. It is precisely this fractured urban landscape and its creative appropriation that serve as the grounds and foundation for the city’s gained reputation as the capital of temporary uses.
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Kreativquartier München. Verena Schmidt, Urs Kumberger

Development framework plan for a mixed-use neighborhood on a former military site north of Munich center, (2013-2014) as a result of an international ideas competition, 1st prize (2012), Client: City of Munich, Department of Urban Planning and Building Regulation
Area: 20,2 acres / Floor Area: 170.000 m² / Program: 900 apartments, university, kindergarten, primary school, office space, creative and cultural uses
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North sea territory. A cultural landscape in a process of change. Ines Lueder

This article aims to shed some light on the development of the peripheral community of Dornum - a possible testing ground for the sustainable development of a new rural-urban territory and cultural landscape.
The community of Dornum is located at the shoreline of East Frisia, a part of Germany that belongs to the state of Lower Saxony. On 77 square kilometers, around 4800 inhabitants are living in 10 villages. There are two coastal villages with a harbor and a tidal gate and one central village with an old castle, a church, a town hall and other infrastructures and services.
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“Food and the City”. A sustainable foodshed for Hannover Region. Maddalena Ferretti

In recent years, we are witnessing a greater consciousness on food related topics and a change in social habitudes. It is a bottom-up process that promotes a return to economies of small scale and new consumers’ practices related to local production. A closer relationship between producers and consumers is demanded. In terms of sustainability, this involves the whole food process: the product itself (the increasing request for bio-products as part an healthy lifestyle), the distribution (the growing concern for pollution caused by goods’ transportation), the production (the urgent need to stop further soil consumption for extensive agricultural use).
The recent neologism foodprint puts in evidence the spatial impacts of food.
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Spazio Pubblico Sostenibile: il paesaggio mediterraneo. Arriola & Fiol

1. Il Paesaggio  Cubista  nella  Città  Mediterranea
Il paesaggio mediterraneo è un territorio dal sole intenso e dalle ombre taglienti, solcato da torrenti e segnato puntualmente da colline scolpite dai terrazzamenti che scendono fino al mare. É un paesaggio trasformato dall’uomo nella sua totalità. I paesi si distendono sui promontori e le case si dispongono l’una a lato dell’altra, digradando dalle vette fino alla pianura.
I campi verdi e le coltivazioni disegnano superfici piane e regolari e i mutui dislivelli vengono risolti attraverso muri in pietra costruiti a secco.
La terra è densa, lavorata su strati che si sono progressivamente sovrapposti e conservati durante i secoli, e offre una gamma infinita di tonalità che variano dal rosso al vermiglio e al carminio, dall’ocra alla terra di siena.
Intensi sono gli azzurri del cielo.
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EL JARDÍN DE LA METRÓPOLI
“Dal verde urbano al disegno dei paesaggi metropolitani:
il nuovo paesaggio fra il periurbano e la campagna urbanizzata”.
Enric Batlle

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¿JARDIN?
La utilización de la palabra JARDIN en el inicio de este texto podría llegar a confundir al lector sobre el contenido del mismo, ya que de hecho voy a hablar sobre los espacios públicos urbanos de nuestras ciudades y muy especialmente de los que se encuentran en una situación de PERIFERIA.
La palabra PERIFERIA nos acerca a un lugar alejado del centro, con unos acabados pobres y un mantenimiento escaso. La PERIFERIA es la zona que rodea un espacio geográfico considerando como centro o núcleo, es marginal, sin carácter, sin límite, una zona urbana penalizada y abandonada.
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Exploring Urban Resilience. Emanuele Sommariva

Preserving biodiversity is possible only if it is taken as the logic of production:
uniformity as a model is necessary only in the context of the control and profit.
Vandana Shiva
Monocultures of the mind, 1993

In 1798, the economist Thomas Malthus published 'An essay of the principle of the population as it Affects the Future Improvement of Society' in which he deepened the theme of the relationship between the food needs and the population growth in the territory. He outlined the theory according to which, the population of a country grows for geometric progressions (quickly), while the availability of food increases by arithmetic increments (slowly), with the result that the settled communities should keep less and less fertile land, to obtain just a few livelihoods, to the inexorable stop of the economic development.
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Plaça de les Glòries, da periferia industriale a centralità ecologica. Cesare Corfone

Il “modello Barcellona”, noto da decenni nei campi della progettazione urbanistica e della riqualificazione dello spazio pubblico, sembra essere un modello in costante rinnovamento. Il caso del progetto “Canòpia Urbana” di UTE Agence Ter e Ana Coello de Llobet, l’interessante progetto vincitore del concorso bandito dal Comune di Barcellona nel 2013 per la riprogettazione e riqualificazione di Plaça de les Glòries, conferma questa ipotesi. Spazio pubblico simbolico in cui convergono i tre grandi viali (la Meridiana, la Gran Via e la Diagonal) disegnati da Ildefons Cerdà nel suo celebre piano di ampliamento della città, il progetto, pur con il suo carattere contemporaneo, smart ed ecologico, sembra rispettare alcune delle idee fondatrici dell'Eixample barcellonese.
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