Metropole Ruhr
European Workshop on large urban projects
Session 2 : Paris – Rhine – Ruhr
Part 1 :
Metropole Ruhr
Sunday, July 5th 2009
Arrival by train at Essen – Main Station
22:51
Monday, July 6th 2009
1.
With the tram No. 107 from Main Station to Zollverein
08:30
2.
Zollverein – World Heritage
09:30
3.
ThyssenKrupp Quartier
11:15
4.
Lunch at Unperfekt Haus
12:30
5.
Gasometer Oberhausen
14:30
6.
Landscape Park Duisburg Nord
16:30
7.
Inner Harbour Duisburg
18:30
Dinner at Inner Harbour Duisburg
19:30
Thuesday, July 7th 2009
08.
Transformation of Bismarck – New urban Development
09:30
09.
Bochum Westpark and Hall of the Century
11:00
Lunch Packages in Westpark
12:30
10.
Phoenix – Transformation of a Steels site
14:00
11.
Building a Metropolis – learning from IBA Emscher Park?
16:30
Workshop at the Technical University Dortmund
12.
Dinner at Casino Zollverein
19:30
Wednesday, July 8th 2009
13.
Contact:
Departure to Cologne – Regionale 2010
Michael Schwarze-Rodrian
mobil: 0049-178-7906504
08:00
schwarze-rodrian@wfgmetropoleruhr.de
Metropole Ruhr
European Workshop on large urban projects
Session 2 :
Part 1 :
Paris – Rhine – Ruhr
Metropole Ruhr
Links for more information
Wirtschaftsförderung metropoleruhr GmbH
Business Development Agency metropoleruhr GmbH
www.business.metropoleruhr.de
(german & english)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Konzept Ruhr
www.konzept-ruhr.de
Emscher Landschaftspark 2010
www.elp2010.de
Masterplan Emscher Landschaftspark 2010
(german )
(download)
www.elp2010.de/index.php?mapid=masterplan_2010
Route Industriekultur
www.route-industriekultur.de
(german & english)
Ruhr.2010 - Kulturhauptstadt Europas
www.kulturhauptstadt-europas.de
(german & english)
Ruhrtriennale (Kultur Ruhr GmbH) (Rheinelbe / Gelsenkirchen)
http://www.ruhrtriennale.de
(dt. & engl.)
Umbau des Emschersystems / Emschergenossenschaft
www.eglv.de/index_frs.html
Masterplan emscher:zukunft
(download)
www.emscherumbau.de/de/zukunft_der_emscher/masterplan/index.php
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Single Informations - Projects & Sites
Weltkulturerbe Zollverein – Essen
www.zollverein.de
(german & english)
Stiftung Zollverein
www.stiftung-zollverein.de
(german & english)
Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen / red dot online
http://de.red-dot.org/design.html
(german & english)
Casino Zollverein – Restaurant
www.casino-zollverein.de
(german & english)
ThyssenKrupp Quartier -Essen
www.krupp-guertel.essen.de
www.krupp-guertel.essen.de/Aktuelles/Aktuelles.asp
Gasometer Oberhausen
www.gasometer.de
(german & english)
Landschaftspark Duisburg Nord
www.landschaftspark.de
(german & english)
Jahrhunderthalle – Bochum
www.jahrhunderthalle-bochum.de
Innenhafen Duisburg
www.innenhafen-duisburg.de
(german & english)
Phoenix – Dortmund
www.phoenixdortmund.de
(german & english)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Nordsternpark Gelsenkirchen
www.nordsternpark.de
www.ths.de
Wissenschaftspark Rheinelbe (Gelsenkirchen)
www.wipage.de
(german & english)
Forststation Rheinelbe / Industriewald Ruhr
www.industriewald-ruhrgebiet.nrw.de
(german & english)
Projekt EWALD (Herten)
www.projekt-ewald.de
www.rag-montan-immobilien.de
www.herten.de
Mont Cenis (Herne)
www.akademie-mont-cenis.de
(german & english)
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7.
3.
5.
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2. & 12.
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10.
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Paris meets Metropole Ruhr - July , 5th – 7th 2009
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Projects – Masterplan Emscher Landschaftspark 2010
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New Emscher Valley – Masterplan Emscher Landschaftspark 2010
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Masterplan - Future of the Emscher
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Masterplan - Future of the Emscher
Masterplan Emscher Zukunft (2006)
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Route Industriekultur - Industrial Heritage Trial
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2.
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Zollverein Park
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ThyssenKrupp Quartier
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ThyssenKrupp Quartier
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ThyssenKrupp Quartier
Chaix & Morel
et Associés (Paris)
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3.
and
JSWD
Jaspert, Steffens,
Watrin, Drehsen
(Köln)
with
Club L94 (Köln)
BSV (Aachen)
INCA (Luxemburg)
PGH (Dormagen)
Architekturmodelle
Th. Halfmann (Köln)
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3.
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ThyssenKrupp Quartier
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3.
Paris meets Metropole Ruhr - July , 5th – 7th 2009
ThyssenKrupp Quartier
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Gasometer Centro Oberhausen
Gasometer
5.
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5.
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Gasometer Oberhausen
Landscape Park Duisburg North
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Landscape Park Duisburg North by night
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6.
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Inner Harbour Duisburg
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7.
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7.
Paris meets Metropole Ruhr - July , 5th – 7th 2009
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Paris meets Metropole Ruhr - July , 5th – 7th 2009
Bismarck New Urban Development
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Paris meets Metropole Ruhr - July , 5th – 7th 2009
Bismarck New Urban Development
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Paris meets Metropole Ruhr - July , 5th – 7th 2009
Bismarck New Urban Development
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8.
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Westpark Bochum & Hall of the Century
Paris meets Metropole Ruhr - July , 5th – 7th 2009
9.
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10.
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Dortmund
Phoenix
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10.
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Phoenix
Dortmund Technical University
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11.
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Dortmund Technical University
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11.
Paris meets Metropole Ruhr - July , 5th – 7th 2009
Casino Zollverein
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12.
Paris meets Metropole Ruhr - July , 5th – 7th 2009
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Paris meets Metropole Ruhr - July , 5th – 7th 2009
Zollverein by night
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Order
Masterplan Emscher Landschaftspark 2010
Klartext Verlag in Essen (19,90 €)
ISBN 3 – 89861 – 476 – X
Download
www.konzept-ruhr.de
www.elp2010.de
www.business.metropoleruhr.de
www.route-industriekultur.de
www.kulturhauptstadt-europas.de
www.ruhrtriennale.de
Contact
Michael Schwarze-Rodrian
Sustainable transformation – Emscher Landscape Park
The Emscher Landscape Park is a regional park system in
the heart of the Ruhr Destrict which has been the traditional
heavy industries corridor in the West of Germany. Its coaland steel industries have formed the basis for more than
150 years of economic and industrial development of
Germany. The decline of the heavy industries started in the
early 1960s and the complex processes of the economic
and cultural transformation and a new orientation of a whole
region are not fished yet.
Sustainable Ruhr - based on new urban landscape
The Emscher Landscape Park covers an area of 457 square
kilometres (167.4 square miles) spread over twenty cities.
5.3 m people belong to the Ruhr district and 2.5 m
inhabitants are living in the polycentric centre of the
agglomeration. Here, the new park system connects the
green space in and between the single cities in a completely
new way. Initiated by the International Building Exhibition
Emscher Park (IBA) in 1989, the Emscher Landscape Park
has been implemented in a series of high quality projects.
New parks have been created, old industrial sites have been
converted completely into green public spaces, landmarks
have been offering new perspectives.
A regional park infrastructure with a system of footpaths and
bikeways, with new bridges and visitor centres with bikes to
rent and guided tour offers, connects all the single sites and
projects for the neighbours and visitors of the park.
A simultaneous coaction of regional strategy and local
projects complement each other and provoke an increase of
design and project as well as process qualities. Planning
competitions and public consultations are a basic standard
and a matter of course to find the best solutions and design.
Well known international architects, artists or local planners
from the neighbourhood – they are all challenged in the
same way to manage the ongoing development of the
industrially shaped urban landscape in the Ruhr creatively
and authentically.
Valuable landscape - platform for new economic
development
The objective of Emscher Landscape Park is the
sustainable increase of living qualities and the
attractiveness of the Ruhr agglomeration along with the
economic, ecologic, social and cultural transformation. The
Emscher Landscape Park is a vision and an integrated
strategy as well as an investment programme and an
Used as a unique chance - brownfields and economic change
operative management for the sustainable future of this old
industrial region. The task is to form and design the spatial
part of the structural transformation. Its management is
based on voluntary inter-local cooperation between the 20
cities and regional project moderation.
The Emscher Landscape Park uses and influences the
ongoing transformation of economy and industries. The long
term decline of heavy industries is combined with the
release of a huge amount of former production sites - sites
of former coal mines and steelworks that were located in the
middle of the cities.
Their defunct freight train system crosses the whole
agglomeration and its transformation is the basis for a
fascinating trail system located directly through and between
the cities. From rail to trail, urban reality is here.
Brownfields are generally seen as a unique and cultural
potential and a spatial and real chance to recreate and
redesign the cities. The new development and connection of
urban landscapes is the basis for a sustainable region.
Industrial heritage is regional identity
The Emscher Landscape Park interacts in all its projects
with industrial heritage. This heritage has been identified in
the last 15 years as the cultural, mental and physical root of
the region and turned out to be its really unique selling
proposition (USP). 52 main anchors of the industrial
heritage are connected with the 400 km long circular Route
Industriekultur (Industrial Heritage Trail) that attracts more
than 2 m visitors per year.
The interaction between industrial nature and industrial
heritage, urban wilderness and urban development with
temporary landscape architecture creates unique new parks
and urban landscapes of a special beauty.
Today, the most important projects are well known world
wide:
Landscape Park Duisburg North, Gasometer Oberhausen,
Tetrahedron Bottrop, WestPark Bochum with the Hall of the
Century, the sculpture “Bramme for the Ruhr” from Richard
Serra in Essen, Nordstern Park in Gelsenkirchen, Zollverein
in Essen which is listed as UNESCO World Heritage
Monument, Waterfront development in Inner-Harbour
New urban landscape – basis for new economic development
Duisburg, Emscher Park Bikeway (230 km) and Emscher
Park Trail (110 km), ErinPark in Castrop-Rauxel, Ore-Train
in Bochum, Gelsenkirchen and Herne, LakePark in Luenen
or the Phoenix sites in Dortmund.
Long-term vision – based on inter-local
cooperation
Numerous small projects are completing the picture, project
by project, year by year, kilometre by kilometre. During the
first 17 years, 178 projects were completed; 248 projects
are presently in process or planned for the next 15 years.
Three decades are estimated to be necessary to build up
the whole regional park.
So many projects include many partners – one reason for
Emscher Landscape Park to be based on regional
moderation and local responsibilities. Instead of a central
park management unit, a system of trustful inter-local
cooperation developed during the last 17 years - combined
with an inspiring project -moderation on regional level.
The positive experience of designing a new urban
landscape, shared by 20 cities, stimulates informal
cooperation and meets both public and political support.
Landscape contributes to life quality
The investment for the park is mainly public - the cities, the
German regional state North-Rhine Westphalia and the
structural funds of the European Union (EU) contribute to
this. The public investment in an attractive urban landscape
goes first and is followed by private industries – tagging the
Ruhr area again as an interesting and smart place for their
companies.
17 years of investment in the park effects surrounding
neighbourhoods. The value of land close to the Emscher
Landscape Park is continuously increasing. Attractive urban
landscape comes to be a relevant location factor. High
design qualities are demanded in public and private
investments in and close to Emscher Landscape Park.
This unique regional park system is much more than a park.
It articulates the design of an urban landscape in
transformation and contributes to the sustainable and
integrated development of the entire region. The basis of
this development strategy is multidisciplinary from the
beginning, the participation of artists and the willingness to
look for new solutions and accept the risks of experiments.
Sustainable river management & inter-local cooperation
A new river and a new valley for the region
One of the major challenges to be addressed in the next 20
years is the ecological and technical renewal of the
Emscher river system. For more than 100 years, the whole
system has been misused as an open and mixed wastewater canal. It was a regional consensus of the cities, the
industry and the mining companies that this was the
cheapest and accepted way to solve serious water
management problems followed by sub-terrestrial coal
mining. After the mining has gone, there is no reason left to
keep the status quo. Waste- and rainwater have to be
separated, hundreds of kilometres of new subsurface tubes
have to be placed and the rivers have to be given back to
the environment and the people.
It is not only an environmental and technical catch up to
current standards of responsible and sustainable river
management and it is not only the huge investment of 4.3
bn Euros, but it also is a unique step and chance of new
urban and landscape development: all the rivers, all their
benches, all accesses to the water will be changed over the
course of the coming 20 years. It is worldwide unique that a
region has the chance to rebuild “its” river
The renewal of the Emscher river system and the creation of
the Emscher Landscape Park are going hand in hand. The
shared project of both strategies is the 'New Emscher
Valley'.
Participation
The Emscher Landscape Park is a promise to the design,
the challenges, the character and the beauty of an old
industrial region. The Emscher Landscape Park counts on
initiative, pride and identity of the people in the Ruhr district.
It is their engagement to form their neighbourhoods and to
develop a new relation to their urban environment which is
the basis for the broad political support of the park in all of
the 20 cities, in all political parties, in the regional institutions
and in all of the (changing) governments during the last 17
years.
To be this successful, the process of regional management
has to be transparent (documentation of the process steps),
accessible (e.g. via internet) as well as dialogue-oriented (by
carrying out workshops). The Emscher Landscape Park
came to be a model for flexible and interactive regional and
town management.
Strategic planning base
The current regional planning platform for the coming park
development is the Masterplan Emscher Landscape
Park 2010 published in 2006. At the beginning, the park
was an unusual experiment in an outstanding laboratory:
the IBA, the International Building Exhibition Emscher
Park. The park concept is a reality today in hundreds of
projects and it is a local and regional shared political
consensus, committed, confirmed and signed by all 20 city
authorities, the administrative districts, the local authority
district and the regional state of North-Rhine Westphalia. It
is object of long term contracts between the state and the
cities, and the durable management and moderation of the
whole Emscher Landscape Park is a law standard now.
All plans, information and projects can be found in the
Masterplan hard cover book (ISBN 3-89861-476-X) - with a
map and DVD - and on the website: www.elp2010.de
Industrial landscapes and urban cultural spaces can be
fully reconceived and transformed for new uses. The Ruhr
Trienniale, a high end art festival that was founded in
2001, and the current nomination of the Ruhr area as
European Capital of Culture 2010 are based on the new
understanding of urban landscapes.
The slogan of the bid for the capital of culture was
successful: Change by culture - culture by change. The
effects of the new urban landscape and the experiences
with successful inter-local cooperation reach out world
wide. International delegations are visiting the Ruhr
continously. NAO, the National Audit Office from London,
made a comparing research in Europe in spring 2007 and
put Emscher Park in the row with Rotterdam, Barcelona,
Lille, Malmö, Manchester and the London Docklands.
The work of the region based on strategies for sustainable
development is continued today by 35 cities of the Ruhr.
They formed together a new strategy in 2007, named
„Konzept Ruhr“, which is accompanied more than 400
single projects. It includes several excisting cooperations,
like ELP 2010. The new stratecical approach is structured
with so called „ruhrbasics“, which focus on the maintopics
of development for the metropolitan region.
The website of the current strategy includes also the
international broshure in English, French and German:
www.konzept-ruhr.de
Projects – Masterplan ELP 2010