2 min, post from September 15, 2020
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In October, the Habitat III Conference took place in Quito. The "New Urban Agenda" was adopted there. It is intended to help the world community to shape the global urbanisation process in a sustainable way. Why is there so little discussion about this in Germany?
Over 30,000 participants were accredited in Quito. Despite good organisation, there were hours of queuing and security checks to get into the conference area, which was declared a temporary UN exclave, and to attend the numerous lectures, forums, discussions, workshops and stands. But there was little of this euphoria in the German media. Habitat III did not manage to get through with a very big message, as the Paris Agreement managed to do with the two-degree target. So all in vain?
Read the complete article in Bauwelt:
www.bauwelt.de/...Die-ganz-grosse-Botschaft-2688951.html
Prof. Dr. Philipp Misselwitz is Professor of International Urban Studies and Design/ Chair Habitat Unit at the Technische Universität Berlin
http://habitat-unit.de
Keywords:
DE-News, News Blog Europe (without DE), SDG 2030, Social / Culture, City, UN (United Nations), Environmental policy, Housing, Housing policy
"Why do the same dreary apartment blocks have to be built everywhere?" asks F.A.Z. economics writer Nadine Oberhuber in Your post from 26.04.2017. She thinks "unambitious" is still the most harmless word of the viewers for the block architecture". As the main cause she quotes her F.A.Z. colleague and architecture critic Niklas Maak who observes a "radical economization of building", similar to the Bundesstiftung Baukultur.
Even the sustainable settlements cannot escape this pressure for returns and are becoming increasingly unimaginative, as I have unfortunately noticed in my observations over the last 20 years. "It's not pretty", as Gerhard Matzig puts it in his Contribution from 16.4. using the example of Munich's housing construction.
1:31 min., 9.2015, High resolution video footage with the help of a drone.
Interview with the architect Heinz Springmann and Friedensreich Hunderwasser about the "Waldspirale" housing estate
13:43 min from 08.04.2012
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/hundertwasser-haus-waldspirale
Keywords:
DE-News, Movies, Movies 11 to 45 Min, News Blog Hesse, Recycling, Housing
Nationwide, construction with wood for buildings up to the high-rise limit is to be made easier and the Model Building Code (MBO) adapted accordingly. This was adopted by the Construction Ministers' Conference (BMK) at the end of the two-day conference in Norderstedt. In addition to climate-friendly construction with a focus on wood, the topic of "affordable housing" was also on the agenda.
Four and a half years after the legal equality of timber construction in the LBO Baden-Württemberg and almost half a year after Bremen, the sixth federal state to break out of the broad phalanx of "timber construction obstructionists", the realisation is now maturing throughout Germany that timber is a particularly environmentally friendly and climate-compatible building material that can be used to solve a wide range of construction tasks well and cost-effectively.
Links
Conclusion of the Construction Ministers' Conference: Wooden houses for more climate friendliness
27 September 2019
www.sat1regional.de/abschluss-der-bauministerkonferenz-holzhaeuser-fuer-mehr-klimafreundlichkeit/
Conference of Building Ministers decides on more climate protection (4.10.2019):
www.bfsb-online.de/bauministerkonferenz-beschliesst-mehr-klimaschutz/
Keywords:
Building materials / Construction, DE-News, Wood construction, Communities, News Blog Baden-Württemberg, News Blog Berlin, News Blog Bremen, News Blog Hamburg, News Blog NRW, News Blog RLP, City, Housing, Housing policy, Ecology
