How do you save your city when it's shrinking due to economic circumstances? Listen up Detroit because you can take a lesson from what's going on in East Germany right now.
By re-purposing abandoned buildings and suggesting that "city islands" be created with urban green zones and huge outdoor art projects, the International Building Exhibition (IBA) focuses on how a shrinking city can be transformed.
This photo essay and article in Speigel Online suggests how your city can withstand the departure of it's population and the economic collapse that follows and still thrive.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
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