1:04 min 12/22/2016
2:46 from 08.04.2015
Project Info: http://sdg21.eu/db/gruene-zitadelle-in-magdeburg
Show building projects by Hundertwasser: http://sdg21.eu/friedensreich-hundertwasser
Applications for funding can be submitted to the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) from 24 November 2020.
Information:
www.kfw.de/...Ladestationen...
Keywords:
DE-News, Funding, Climate protection, eMobility
The city of Bonn has received the Blue Sky Award for its commitment to sustainable development, environmental and climate protection, also on an international level. Mayor Reinhard Limbach accepted the award on Thursday, 29 August 2019, in the Chinese special economic zone Shenzhen.
The award is presented by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Blue Sky Awards Organizing Committee to cities and individuals that have made a special contribution to climate protection.
Internationally, Bonn is involved, among other things, in the city network for sustainability ICLEI, which has its headquarters in the federal city and whose president is Lord Mayor Ashok Sridharan. In addition, the city - funded by Engagement Global - is working together with the cities of La Paz (Bolivia), Cape Coast (Ghana) and Linares (Chile) under the heading "Municipal Climate Protection Partnerships". Topics include strategies and measures for adapting to climate change, the use of renewable energies and education for sustainable development. In Chengdu (China), an exchange on climate protection issues was held together with civil society organisations.
With its own sustainability strategy, which was adopted at the beginning of the year, Bonn wants to contribute to the systematic implementation of the United Nations' Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. And in early summer, the city launched a new participatory campaign on climate protection under the motto "Think new. Simply act. Together for the climate." shows that climate-friendly action can be very simple and enrich one's own life.
Coalition of cities to promote a sustainable circular economy
Mayor Limbach also participated in the launch event of the Green Circular Cities Coalition of the international city network ICLEI. This is a coalition of cities for the promotion of a sustainable circular economy, in which the cities of Bonn, Turku (Finland), Shenzhen (PR China) as well as Yokohama and Nagano (Japan), among others, participate.
Limbach discussed the topic of urban transformation/circular economy with international city representatives. In doing so, he presented projects and approaches of the city of Bonn in waste avoidance and the recycling of valuable resources. Also on the agenda of the two-day visit was a presentation of the Shenzhen city bus transport system, which is entirely electric, and a modern combined heat and power plant powered by waste.
Keywords:
News Blog NRW, UN (United Nations)
To date, the "Hoher Weg" eco-settlement in Hamm, with 120 residential units, is the second largest timber housing estate in Germany. This is astonishing because it was already built in the 1990s.
The photos were taken in August 2017:
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The largest German timber housing estate was also built in Hamm:
http://sdg21.eu/db/wohnpark-heinrichstrasse
Further information about the settlement in Hamm-Heessen
http://sdg21.eu/db/oekosiedlung-hoher-weg-in-hamm
Keywords:
Wood construction, News Blog NRW, Settlements, sdg21 news
A most welcome piece of news reached the city of Aachen this morning (17 March 2021): Federal Minister Horst Seehofer has announced this year's selection of the "National Projects of Urban Development" and announced that the development of the Büchel old town quarter will receive up to 5.5 million euros in funding. Aachen is thus one of four municipalities in NRW to have been awarded the contract. With the amount of funding, the city is in third place nationwide.
OBin Keupen: "We feel the spirit of optimism!"
"This is a great message for our city," says Mayor Sibylle Keupen in her first reaction. "We have long felt the spirit of optimism around the Büchel in Aachen. The demolition of the multi-storey car park is imminent, the planning workshop was a great success, many groundbreaking political decisions have been made, and more are on the horizon. Above all, many city makers are on board and want to be involved in a very concrete way. They want to participate, to shape, to plan, to build. The fact that this high level of commitment of all those involved here on site has now also triggered such a response at federal level encourages us to continue on the path of 'making a city at Büchel'."
City Planning Director Burgdorff: "Aachen can play in the Bundesliga!"
The municipal councillor for urban development, construction and mobility, Frauke Burgdorff, adds: "I am extremely pleased that Aachen, if it sticks together, can also play in the Bundesliga! Aachen's politicians have united behind the project and have given their backing to the state and federal governments. Thank you for that! But I would also like to express my sincere thanks to those who have done the substantive work here on site, to the municipal project manager Nils Jansen as well as to Christoph Guth and Antje Eickhoff, who have done an excellent job on the part of the municipal development company SEGA."
Making town at the Büchel
A special piece of the city at eye level is to be created at Büchel. It is being developed together with many committed people and institutions. With this approach, it has also precisely met the requirements of the call for proposals. The Federal Ministry's project overview states: "Knowledge, living, meadow" are the keywords under which a mixed-use, urban quarter is to be created in the heart of Aachen's old town in a cooperative and exemplary development process that is wanted and supported by the urban community.
The basis for the development is the exploratory procedure "Stadt machen am Büchel" (Making a city at Büchel), which the city of Aachen launched in spring 2020. City Planning Director Burgdorff sums up: "A multi-storey car park has been blocking the development of the old town for decades. We are tearing it down and building a new urban quarter. The urban community itself is developing the programme, urban design and investment strategy. This project offers a unique opportunity to find answers to the question of how a major wound in the old city can be healed with contemporary building-cultural responses."
The next steps
Following today's basic commitment by the federal government to fund the project, the detailed applications for funding will be drawn up in phase 2. In this ongoing process - and on the basis of upcoming landmark decisions of Aachen's municipal politics - it will now be worked out how the Büchel of the future will take shape with the funding millions.
National urban development projects
National urban development projects are nationally and internationally visible, larger-scale urban development projects with clear impulses for the respective municipality or city, the region and urban development policy in Germany as a whole. They are characterised by a special quality standard with regard to the urban development approach, the building culture aspects and the participation processes, contribute to the realisation of the federal government's building policy objectives and have innovation potential. National urban development projects are projects that generally solve tasks and problems of considerable financial dimension. The focus is on the major challenges currently facing cities and municipalities in Germany (e.g. preservation of existing buildings, conversions, sustainable neighbourhood development).
A total of 24 projects for forward-looking urban development are being funded by the federal government with a total of around 75 million euros. 98 cities and municipalities from all over Germany applied for the funding.
More info
Interesting facts about the Büchel can be found on the Internet at
www.buechel-aachen.de
From Aprill 2021 the Demolition work on the Büchel multi-storey car park. All the info on this has been presented as part of an online event. The stream is still available on the YouTube channel of the city of Aachen:
https://youtu.be/KQqFq6v_edA.
Within the framework of a cooperative planning workshop, three teams of experts developed three exciting designs for the Büchel, each with a focus on the major themes of "knowledge, living, meadow". The final presentation of the planning workshop, which took place digitally in January 2021, is also still available as a stream:
https://youtu.be/AWSb5Gx3gKA.
Source: PM of the city of Aachen from 17.03.2021
Keywords:
DE-News, Funding, New building area, News Blog NRW, Mix of uses, Participation, Quarters, City, Transition Town
