Hanover-Kronsberg

Rainwater streams as a design element in the main experience areas of the "cross streets"; rainwater collection basins also design focal point in some courtyards
"The central theme of rainwater management was the one that Atelier Dreiseitl ... had to address most intensively. On the northern and southern downhill street avenues, green spaces stand out, between about 13 and 30 meters wide. Their main purpose is to absorb the surface water of the avenues, the overflow of the adjacent apartment blocks and the throttled runoff of the streets parallel to the slope. In addition, however, these areas are intended to serve as public parks where residents and visitors will experience water as directly as possible ..." (# 27)

Parking spaces along the streets; underground garages, carports; reduced to 0.8 private parking spaces/ per apartment
Conventional road (asphalted, paved sidewalks, parking spaces with grass joints)

Adjacent to the east is an open meadow/field, which is turned into an adventure area with artificially raised hills 10-15 m high (excavated soil from the residential buildings).

Soil management: excavation used for the mounds in the landscaped area and noise barriers. Near-natural greening with tenant gardens.front garden depending on house type: conventional distance green to terraced house front garden.
Garden depending on house type: inner courtyard to screened private garden (small gardens), partly private terraces above garages, roof terraces
Playground multiform, from small playgrounds in the courtyards to the parks to the overall space as "roaming space" (# 19, page 22) [Note: experience, discover].

Neighbourhood parks: two blocks kept free of buildings, one in the northern, the other in the southern part of Kronsberg; both intensively designed as a modern city park; adjoining to the east, free meadow/field area, which becomes an adventure area with artificially raised hills of 10-15 m height (excavated soil from the residential buildings).

Kronsberg district centre "KroKus": www.hannover.de/...Stadtteilzentrum-KroKuS/...
ifeu (2001): CO2 balance 2001. Heidelberg

Pamela Heise (2002): Nachhaltigkeit von Weltausstellungen am Beispiel der Expo 2000 in Hannover - eine Wirkungsananlyse (am Beispiel der Expo-Siedlung Hannover Kronsberg; Anm. sdg21.eu). Doctorate at the Faculty of Spatial Planning at the University of Dortmund (pdf 5 MB)

Klemme, Katrin (2002): Ökologische Standards im Siedlungsbau. Diploma thesis at the University of Stuttgart. Diploma thesis at the University of Stuttgart. In this thesis the new housing estate Kronsberg was described in detail and ecologically evaluated.