Two words: Sustainability & architecture
Almost everywhere it seems, you keep coming up against the word sustainability. Enter it into Google, and you currently get 74,200,000 hits. In 1998 the word for sustainable in German – nachhaltig –...
View ArticleThe highlights in my personal EXPO REAL diary
As the interests of the participants in EXPO REAL are as diverse as the participants themselves, then it follows that they will all be attracted to different highlights at the show. It´s all a...
View ArticleUrban Development – for once a rather contentious debate
The focus was actually on a book – “Wir bauen Deutschland” (We are building Germany), published by Deutsche Reihenhaus AG – but the discussion very quickly took a turn that was only tangentially to do...
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Nostalgia meets progress – Of old buildings, new uses and big emotions
As regards where we come from, the place we call home, then it´s probably true to say that most people are very conservative – out of tradition or nostalgia. Imagine your childhood home was going to be...
View ArticleMunichization – when prosperity spoils variety
Munich, a city known for the Oktoberfest, FC Bayern and prosperity. Bourgeois, serious, successful, rich – these are all clichés that leap spontaneously to mind when thinking of Munich, at least for a...
View ArticleEuropean Leading Cities – three cities from three different points of the...
A news item from the EXPO REAL online press conference grabbed my attention. There is to be a joint stand shared by three cities that would not normally feature in the same breath: Birmingham,...
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Africa’s growth needs… real estate
High population growth and the flight to the cities are making planned urban development more necessary than ever before. No matter how diverse the African continent might be, travelers to Africa are...
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The property boom in Nairobi: “This land is not for sale”
The Ngong Road leading out of downtown Nairobi to the fashionable suburb of Karen has long been a beehive for small businesses. On the left-hand side of the road they sell plants in black plastic bags,...
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The direction in which cities are developing – Smart Cities: Vienna and...
Cities are not merely the largest gatherings of human life, they are also highly complex organisms in their own right as the sum of diverse human activity. In order for the organism that is the city to...
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