New (sub)urbanism? - How German cities try to create “urban” neighborhoods in their outskirts as a contribution to solving their recent housing crises

Altrock, Uwe

doi:10.1016/j.ugj.2022.04.001

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“…The article builds on three research projects on recent urban design innovations and participation that have studied new housing developments in the 50 largest German cities since the financial crisis (Altrock, 2022a;Bertram & Altrock, 2021;vhw, 2018). The results were complemented by a survey of architectural and planning publications on the studied cities, council information and process representations of the cities, competition documents, and stated aims of designers and investors to identify the major urban design strategies that are currently applied when identifying sites and trying to regulate high-rise development.…”

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

Altrock

2022

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“… Altrock (2022) describes a new (sub)urbanism to show how German cities try to create ‘urban’ neighborhoods in their outskirts as a contribution to solving their recent housing crises. The resulting development model, proposed by this article, builds on an attempt to realize ‘urban’ features and qualities in the periphery so that the changing demand for housing can be met and multiple sustainability requirements can be realized.…”

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confidence: 99%