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Topos

N.106
Magazine

Topos is a must-have for successful landscape architects, planners, urban designers and architects all over the world.The monothematic issues provide a global overview of innovative projects, new developments and trends in the profession. Be part of the worldwide community of Topos readers!

COVER

Behind the Glass Wall

“CHILDREN ARE THE URBAN SUPERHEROES WHO DELIVER INCLUSIVITY IN THE CITY” • In Tirana, Albania’s capital, a unique alliance aims to make the city’s public infrastructure inclusive and safe. Mayor Erion Veliaj employs the help of Tirana’s youngest civil society actors to promote car-free activities in public space. Children have become the city’s agents of change for a sustainable urban future.

Talent vs. Mastermind

Berlin • Once an urban battlefield during the Second World War, then a divided city, and now a hip party metropolis: Berlin is a prime example of the city as a palimpsest. Layer by layer, political and social events in the form of a new building culture are being added to the German capital. Recent developments have made the city a metropolis for art and culture; a tourist attraction for both culture freaks and party-goers. This era is also drawing to a close, however, as the next layer begins to take shape.

Contrasts from above • Political and social inequalities around the world leave their mark on the landscape. Seen from the air, they become visible. Intentional divides between the advantaged and the disadvantaged reveal how positive intentions and negative outcomes create topographical divides. Photographer Johnny Miller documents these contrasts.

Biophilia for healthy Cities • Pollution, climate change, depletion of resources and loss of biodiversity – it is high time to search for new role models for future urban spaces. Herbert Dreiseitl, landscape architect and urban designer, calls for Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) as an approach to design liveable cities. He argues that BGI could be the DNA for any healthy urban development, the ‘medicine’ to keep cities alive and vibrant.

Landscapes to the Max • In 2016, as part of the global initiative “100 Resilient Cities” sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation, Mexico City’s CDMX Resilience Office released the first resilience strategy ever developed in Mexico. Based on an holistic approach, it defines the broad lines of action that will guide the city’s long-term development plans and emphasizes the role of public space in responding to the increasingly urgent conditions related to environmental and social risks. Built in a socially stratified area, the park La Mexicana is a manifesto of this approach.

“A city is good if it counteracts social stress” • Does living in a city make people ill? In his book Stress and the City, the Berlin stress researcher Mazda Adli explores the question of whether the city and the stress it causes harm our psyche. His interdisciplinary approach to Neuro-Urbanism involves the networking of science, culture and politics in order to build the “Healthy City of Tomorrow”. Adli is convinced that “Cities are good for us – we just have to learn to make them worth living in”. We talked to the researcher about urban stress, urban skills and urban planning as part of a Public Mental Health Strategy.

Living the Eco-dream • Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm is known as one of the most eco-friendly districts in the world. After more than 25 years of construction the area is now complete. Its best practices show how an urban development challenge can become an asset, and how ailing, dilapidated docklands can be transformed into a healthy and sustainable quarter. Mats Egelius, architect at White Arkitekter and responsible for the first construction phase of Hammarby Sjöstad, takes us back to Sjöstad’s genesis.

“We must overcome the gap between landscape architects and health specialists” •...


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Frequency: Quarterly Pages: 116 Publisher: GEORG GmbH & Co. KG Edition: N.106

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  • Release date: March 15, 2019

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Topos is a must-have for successful landscape architects, planners, urban designers and architects all over the world.The monothematic issues provide a global overview of innovative projects, new developments and trends in the profession. Be part of the worldwide community of Topos readers!

COVER

Behind the Glass Wall

“CHILDREN ARE THE URBAN SUPERHEROES WHO DELIVER INCLUSIVITY IN THE CITY” • In Tirana, Albania’s capital, a unique alliance aims to make the city’s public infrastructure inclusive and safe. Mayor Erion Veliaj employs the help of Tirana’s youngest civil society actors to promote car-free activities in public space. Children have become the city’s agents of change for a sustainable urban future.

Talent vs. Mastermind

Berlin • Once an urban battlefield during the Second World War, then a divided city, and now a hip party metropolis: Berlin is a prime example of the city as a palimpsest. Layer by layer, political and social events in the form of a new building culture are being added to the German capital. Recent developments have made the city a metropolis for art and culture; a tourist attraction for both culture freaks and party-goers. This era is also drawing to a close, however, as the next layer begins to take shape.

Contrasts from above • Political and social inequalities around the world leave their mark on the landscape. Seen from the air, they become visible. Intentional divides between the advantaged and the disadvantaged reveal how positive intentions and negative outcomes create topographical divides. Photographer Johnny Miller documents these contrasts.

Biophilia for healthy Cities • Pollution, climate change, depletion of resources and loss of biodiversity – it is high time to search for new role models for future urban spaces. Herbert Dreiseitl, landscape architect and urban designer, calls for Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) as an approach to design liveable cities. He argues that BGI could be the DNA for any healthy urban development, the ‘medicine’ to keep cities alive and vibrant.

Landscapes to the Max • In 2016, as part of the global initiative “100 Resilient Cities” sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation, Mexico City’s CDMX Resilience Office released the first resilience strategy ever developed in Mexico. Based on an holistic approach, it defines the broad lines of action that will guide the city’s long-term development plans and emphasizes the role of public space in responding to the increasingly urgent conditions related to environmental and social risks. Built in a socially stratified area, the park La Mexicana is a manifesto of this approach.

“A city is good if it counteracts social stress” • Does living in a city make people ill? In his book Stress and the City, the Berlin stress researcher Mazda Adli explores the question of whether the city and the stress it causes harm our psyche. His interdisciplinary approach to Neuro-Urbanism involves the networking of science, culture and politics in order to build the “Healthy City of Tomorrow”. Adli is convinced that “Cities are good for us – we just have to learn to make them worth living in”. We talked to the researcher about urban stress, urban skills and urban planning as part of a Public Mental Health Strategy.

Living the Eco-dream • Hammarby Sjöstad in Stockholm is known as one of the most eco-friendly districts in the world. After more than 25 years of construction the area is now complete. Its best practices show how an urban development challenge can become an asset, and how ailing, dilapidated docklands can be transformed into a healthy and sustainable quarter. Mats Egelius, architect at White Arkitekter and responsible for the first construction phase of Hammarby Sjöstad, takes us back to Sjöstad’s genesis.

“We must overcome the gap between landscape architects and health specialists” •...


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