German Cities: Success Beyond Growth?

Germany, after leading the world for so many years as an advanced industrial economy, is now offering the rest of Europe an accelerated insight into what life is going to be like with an ageing population, a falling birthrate, and a society in which too few active young people are prepared to carry the burden of social responsibily forced on them by demographics.

Table of Contents

GERMAN CITIES: LOOKING FOR THE FUTURE

Deyan Sudjic 

GERMANY: A GLOBAL CITIES SYSTEM?

Dieter Läpple 

URBAN NETWORKS ON THE MOVE 

Markus Hesse 

TOWARDS A EUROPEAN URBAN FORM 

Omar Akbar, Elisabeth Kremer 

THE LUXURY OF EMPTINESS 

Josef Weber 

BERLIN: THE VITALITY OF A GROWTH-LESS CITY 

Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig

 

Publication date
November 2006