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Germany Knows a Thing or Two About Saving Shrinking Cities

One of the IBA's more radical ideas is that of "city islands" in Dessau-Rosslau. The planners have "kind of disassembled the city into pixels and put it back together again using a cut-and-paste method," as Brückner explains. According to the concept, Dessau-Rosslau would abandon the model of a more compact central city, leaving only islands of houses. "Buildings will be cut out and in the empty spaces we will insert countryside," Brückner explains.
In other cities, old public pools are being repurposed for performance space, and huge art pieces are going up in demolition sites. Saxony-Anhalt is beautiful territory and it's nice to see they've been tackling these challenges with such aplomb. It'll be a good example to reference for the Rust Belt and parts of suburban America.
via good.is

As always, it is almost amusing to see how an exciting project like this, that nobody in Germany has ever heard a word of, suddenly shows up on a completely different channel than expected.

If you're interested, "Der Spiegel" has a longer, more detailed article on the project: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,688152-2,00.html

BTW: GOOD.is has really become a resident in my daily "News-Fix", although I sometimes feel a bit overwhelmed by the amount of posts I "have" to read.

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Why Germany really sucks once in a while and how I hope it will work out.

"I don’t really watch TV too often, but I like Political reports. Yesterday’s report was, again, about Social Networking in Germany. We have two big state sponsored media institutions, ARD and ZDF, bound to deliver high-quality political and historical content dedicated to make us smart enough that we’re not becoming Nazis again. That works more or less. Unfortunately these channels seem to be run by editors who either don’t understand or don’t want to focus on the many positive aspects of the social web.

 

After interesting comments and reactions on the Blog there is not a single word to add.

My hope is that, in the end, "the media market" will regulate itself. 
Consumers will hopefully abandon old fashioned TV , changing to sources where someone understands ongoing change. In my opinion "voting with your remote, keyboard or mouse" is the only way to really change things.
Just hope we're gonna be quick enough and not all members of olders generations will already by scared away by "that Internet thing" before they have a real chance of getting to know its possibilities.

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