Dr. Werner Nohl · landscape architect · honorary professor (Technical University of Munich)
The puzzle of open spaces -
Types and systems of open spaces in
cities
With the urbanization of
industrial society, nature in cities has become a
scarce resource. The pressure on the remaining urban open spaces is
immense and will increase considerably with growing density of
population
and necessity of climatic reorientation. Constituent for future open
space planning as service of general interest will therefore not only
be the boundary conditions of limited and burdened nature but also
the
possibility of self-determined use of open spaces. Therefore
particularly the construction and preservation of those open space
types and open space systems are needed, which function as
life-promoting places for future urban
residents.
This audio was created as
teaching material in 2021 at the Institute for Open Space Development
(Prof. Oppermann) at Leibnitz University Hannover, Germany, and is
based on an interview Barb Mehrens conducted with Werner Nohl in
2015.
The basic contents were already developed by Werner Nohl in the 70s
of
the last century and are published in the book: Werner Nohl,
"Städtischer Freiraum und Reproduktion der Arbeitskraft" (Urban open
spaces and reproduction of working power), Vol. 2 of
the
Series "Studien" (IMU Institute for Media Research and
Urbanistics, ed.), Munich 1983.
To listen to the audio go to the
German
version "Das Puzzle der Freiräume: Freiraumtypen und Freiraumsysteme
in der Stadt (Audio 2021)"
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