What constitutes urban society? What is understood by urban culture? What will the city of tomorrow look like - Smart City, Mega City, Green City? What makes up the German and European city? How are public cultural spaces used or repurposed? The German Cultural Council addresses these questions in the 2/2021 issue of its newspaper "Politik

Under the heading "They have never been as valuable as they are today", Almut Jirku, landscape planner and member of the bdla working group on urban development and open space planning, provides the contribution of landscape architecture to the topic of "urban culture". "Shaping climate change in cooperation with other disciplines, improving and expanding the blue-green infrastructure of cities, making cities greener despite densification, but not neglecting usability and design over it - that is the challenge for landscape architecture in the coming years. The Association of German Landscape Architects (bdla) sees an important task in promoting and supporting this."

Almut Jirku: pdf "Nie waren sie wertvoll wie heute" (298 KB)
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