“Buying the Air” – Planning and Land Policy Interventions for Hybrid High-Rises in Frankfurt am Main

Thiel, Fabian; Mach, Verona

doi:10.1080/02513625.2020.1906043

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“…The idea of functionally complementing city clusters with residential uses has occasionally also produced mixed-use high-rise buildings (Merkel, 2018;Thiel & Mach, 2020). Several floors of hotels or office high-rises are reserved for luxury apartments, thus meeting a high-priced residential demand or combined with office and hotel floors.…”

Section: Further Development Of City Clusters: Attempts At Functional...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing in Germany and the Rebirth of the High-Rise in Post-Modern Urban Design

Altrock

2022

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High-rise buildings were a frequent design element in modernist urban planning and architecture. However, both the criticisms modernism faced and the negative experiences with large housing estates dating from that period led to post-modern designs that built strongly on traditional pre-modernist urban form. Despite the role of high-rise buildings in office areas, many brownfield and greenfield housing developments from the 1980s to the 2000s reflected this trend and abandoned high-rise buildings almost completely in Central Europe. Only recently, a renaissance of high-rise buildings as design elements for housing projects can be noted. The article traces this development by analyzing major design projects in Germany and offering explanations for this trend linked to major socio-cultural transformations and urban design innovations. It looks at the role of architects, urban designers, and other stakeholders in promoting hybrid urban design models and presents major strategies by cities under development pressure that try to manage their evolving skyline. Case studies deal with the five largest German cities of Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, and Frankfurt am Main.

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Section: Further Development Of City Clusters: Attempts At Functional...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Housing in Germany and the Rebirth of the High-Rise in Post-Modern Urban Design

Altrock

2022

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“…Policy-driven large-scale densification in strategic areas is typically initiated by public authorities, who must also provide new infrastructure and services to accommodate the increasing number of inhabitants in the area. However, the private sector and market forces also have an essential role in implementing densification (e.g., Tasan--Kok et al, 2019;Filion et al, 2020;Limb et al, 2020;Pinnegar et al, 2020;Thiel and Mach, 2020;Biggar, 2021), and joint ventures or private-led development can also be used depending on the legal and political context. The type of new buildings is either low-rise, high-rise (even towers), or mixed, depending on the features of the existing urban form and land use plans.…”

Section: Type 2: Policy-driven Large-scale Densification Of Strategic...mentioning

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“…Even though large densification projects in existing residential areas have potential positive externalities locally and contribute to strategic housing supply objectives, local residents and other stakeholders may be opposed due to the negative externalities on-site (e.g., Cinyabuguma and McConnell, 2013;Pinnegar et al, 2020), contributing to allocative justice conflict. Finally, increased rents and apartment values may push people with lower income out of densification areas, contributing to gentrification and challenges in social equity (e.g., Debrunner and Hartmann, 2020;Filion et al, 2020;Limb et al, 2020;Pinnegar, 2020;Thiel and Mach, 2020), creating a policy outcome conflict. In many jurisdictions, this is shown especially in the context of type 2.…”

Section: Land Policy Conflict Profile 2: Policy-driven Large-scale De...mentioning

confidence: 99%