Olaf Bartels – författare

Hamburg is growing. Germany‘s largest port city is getting ready to have more than 1.9 million residents by 2030. For some time now, the city has been pursuing an ambitious construction program, with a focus on inner city development: the new buildings on the northern banks of the Elbe River, HafenCity, or the initiative "Sprung über die Elbe" (Leap across the Elbe) stand for development strategies on a grand scale. How should Hamburg continue to develop? What will its priorities be in the future? Hamburg’s urban development planning is placing a new emphasis on the city’s outskirts and the urban spaces along its main thoroughfares: postwar modernist housing developments are to be upgraded in order to preserve affordable living space and make modern workplaces possible. The goal is an effective mix of uses and new urban quality of life. This book shows Hamburg in the international discourse of urban development. It presents the most important projects and protagonists from the fields of architecture, urban planning, and landscape design, while allowing users and initiatives to have a voice.

Hamburg has set its sights on sustainable inner-city development. New residential, working, mobility, and leisure spaces are being created. The second volume in the Hamburg – Positions, Plans, Projects series is dedicated to these new neighborhoods. In essays and dialogues, it presents strategies for a dense, sustainable, and yet affordable city. With a short English version of all texts Designing Neighborhoods follows Building Urban Spaces (ISBN 978-3-86859-634-2) as the second volume in the series Hamburg – Positions, Plans, Projects Presents Hamburg’s vision for a sustainable, neighborly city development With essays by Kaye Geipel, Dieter Läpple, Stephan Reiß-Schmidt, Werner Sobek, and a photo essay by Johanna Klier