on 6 July 2016 in Oberhausen More housing! This is the message of the hour, because we urgently need housing. Especially for people who cannot participate in social life because of their income, their social status or their education: e.g. for transfer recipients, for the homeless and of course for the refugees, [...]
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It is estimated that the care and integration of refugees will cost 20 billion euros in 2016. In the program Frontal21 from 24.5.2016 (from (minute 25 to 33) figures are mentioned, how some providers of refugee accommodations charge horrendous prices. According to their research, the cost of accommodation per refugee is 87 to [...]
ExWoSt Information 48/1 (April 2016) This issue of ExWoSt Information provides an up-to-date and well-founded overview of common balancing tools and also introduces you to one that was developed as part of the ExWoSt predecessor study "Requirements for energy-efficient and climate-neutral neighbourhoods (EQ)". Publisher Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) at the Federal Office for [...]
"Hermann Knoflacher wants to build on roads and parking spaces. Car-free cities are feasible, says the transport expert. This would allow municipalities to create masses of affordable housing." Read the complete article from 3.3.2016: Deutschlandradio Kultur
In 2015, 939 projects with 548 million euros were newly approved by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. In the previous year, the figure was 695 projects with 373 million euros in funding. Most of the money went to wind energy, photovoltaics, energy efficiency in buildings and cities, energy storage and grid infrastructure. A detailed insight into [...]
ifeu-Institut Heidelberg commissioned by the Heinrich Böll Foundation In recent years, many cities around the world have committed themselves to significantly reducing their greenhouse gas emissions by improving their heat supply and thus making an important contribution to climate protection. Despite the energy transition, Germany is lagging behind in this endeavour because the energy transition [...]
Today, the state parliament will be presented with a bill on the state's Reception Act. With this, the municipalities will receive more money for the reception, accommodation and care of asylum seekers. "The amendment to the State Reception Act will lead to a significant improvement in the financing of the task of refugee assistance for the municipalities and is an important basis for ensuring that [...]
Hrsg. Wohnbund e.V. Creating sufficient affordable housing - especially in European conurbations - is one of the great challenges of our future and calls for new solutions. In view of demographic change, changing family structures and growing environmental awareness, completely new forms of housing have developed in Europe: shared living for young and [...]
The Montag-Stiftung Urbane Räume (Bonn) refers to real estate developed by many for many and contributing to the common good as Immovielien. A website of the foundation has now gone online, documenting in detail exemplary projects from which one can be inspired: from the ExRotaprint in Berlin to the Elsebad [...]
Europe's largest passive house in timber construction is located in Lübeck. It serves as a new workplace for 430 employees of the local public utility company. According to the client, the timber construction method was no more expensive than a conventional mineral wet construction method - also because an intelligent fire protection concept meant that it was not necessary to clad the timber components.
The following 2 minute video (Nov. 2015) reports on the visions for the urban future of the Morgenstadt program and the focal points of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft's work:
With more than 1,700 completed buildings, SolarActiveHouses are no longer a marginal phenomenon. What has been missing so far is a scientific evaluation of this heat supply concept. To this end, researchers have measured nine solar houses over several heating periods. The responsible project manager Gerhard Stryi-Hipp presented the interim results at the OTTI symposium "Thermal Solar Energy". Read the further in the [...]
Kurzinfo: "Wie werden sich unsere Städte entwickeln? Und wer bestimmt das eigentlich – allein die Stadtverwaltung oder auch die Bürger? In drei Metropolen Europas sucht die Reportage Stadt der Zukunft – Zukunft der Stadt nach Antworten: In London lernen wir das Konzept der Stadt als profitorientiertes Unternehmen kennen, das sich im weltweiten Wettbewerb mit anderen Metropolen beweisen muss.
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The film "In Transition 2.0" (OmU; 65 min) shows examples from the Transition world (including Japan, New Zealand, India, England, the USA and many more) about the diversity and positive power of the Transition movement and the projects on the ground.
URBAN MINING – Die Stadt als ewige Rohstoffquelle Regie: Sandra Czeczelitz Produktion: Christoph Gretzmacher | twovisions Filmproduction 45 min. A 2012 Sendung vom 29.10.2012. 3sat
