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Planning new Districts in Freiburg

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Organizing political and administrative Processes Keeping visions alive going through complex realization processes

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Results – correspond to the plannings? Goals Methods One motor for the project (concentrated on the project) and fighting for its quality Strong civic participation (keeping visions alive) Results Negative and positive surprises „Lessons“ from the two projects Vauban and Rieselfeld

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Medieval town center 220.000 inhabitants, 30.000 students Population growth of 1% per year Rising prices for rents and real estate New eco-district for 15.000 inhabitants planned

Foto: Daniel Schoenen

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Two eco-districts planned in the 90‘s: Vauban (5500) Rieselfeld (11.000 inhabitants)

Three main goals: Low energy consumption Good social structures High living quality (Social Housing district from the 60s being the negative example) Reduction of CO2-emissions

Source: City of Freiburg

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Result in very short: High satisfaction of inhabitants, High real estate and rent prices Vauban among the five „best loved“ districts of Freiburg, Rieselfeld among the second best loved (more than 89 % satisfied) The success of the districts making it more and more difficult to keep up the goal of social mixity

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The Vauban eco-district

Foto: City of Freiburg

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Construction and living

Small plots, high energy efficiency

• Owner of the land :

City of Freiburg

• Timetable: 1996 - 2016
• Surface : 41 ha
• Appartments : ~ 2000
• Inhabitants : ~ 5500
• « Freiburg Low energy standard »

max 65 kWh/m2/an Foto: City of Freiburg

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Fotos: Daniel Schoenen

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Quartier Vauban

Legend:

Low consumption (65 kWh / m2 / an) 55 kWh / m2 / an Passive Houses (15 kWh / m² / a)

Plus energ houses

Construction standards

Energetical standards over-fullfilled

Plan:City of Freiburg

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Administration and communication with actors organized in a „Project group“ („Projektgruppe Vauban“, „Projektgruppe Rieselfeld) Members from: Urban Planning administration Real Estate Management Construction Administration Statal Consulting Agency Working full time only for the development of the new districts Heads of the Project group are also head of the city counceller working group In which future inhabitants are included

Project Organization, administrative side

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Main actors for the planning of Vauban district

Homeowner Cooperatives Association for Car-free living Cooperative „Genova“ University of Freiburg Self-organized Social housing Other investors

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Type of investors: Mostly building cooperatives

Plan:City of Freiburg

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Foto: Daniel Schoenen

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Spaces without parking lots

Infrastructure influences behaviour

Plan:City of Freiburg

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Car owners in the Freiburg districts

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Results of 2010 survey by the „Institute für angewandte Sozalwissenschaft“ with the district association Points mentioned as particularly positive in Vauban: Shopping possibilities Kindergardens, childcare Playing possibilities outside for children Social contacts, contacts to neighbours (only seen as positive in three other parts of Freiburg, Kappel, Ebnet, Waltershofen: Villages around Freiburg) Urbanism („Gestaltung“) of the district

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Rieselfeld District (begun in 1996)

Plan:City of Freiburg

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Owner Structures

Building group projects Investors projects for renting Company projects

Investor structure in Rieselfeld

One investor could not build more than 40 appartments

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Buildings structures around inner courts

Foto: Daniel Schoenen

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Civic pariticipation Organized by the city + a team of social workers That got inspirations also by travelling to

• Aarhus. . .

Foto: Privat

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Social work in the district for the developpment of the district Association’s and citizen’s Activities:

— Fête de quartier — Parrainages de cœurs d’eau — Parrainage d’arbres — Journal de quartier — Association sportive — Associations des séniores — Compétition de course à pied «Rieselfeld-Meile» — Cinéma pour la jeunesse — Protection de la nature

Civic participation for:

— Urbanistic Concept — Concept of children’s area « Dragon Island» — District Festivity — Central Green Ground 2002 — Natural Reserve Green Ground — Concept of the two main Squares „Maria-von-Rudloff“ and „Geschw.Scholl“ — District Center and Médiathèque «Glashaus » — Nature Path in the Natural Reserve

Working groups during planning process :

WG «District Center» WG «Transports» WG «District Heating» WG «Children and Youth» WG «Art and Culture» WG «landscape architecture»

RIESELFELD Eco-District

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Intense communication High transparency = trust between actors Openness for solutions and concepts Coming from citizens „No efficiency without risk“ PRO ENLARGED CIVIC PARTICIPATION CONTRA Costs of civic participation (2 Mio Euro in each district) Time: Concertation takes time Conflict Management necessary

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„Positive Surprises“

New Models and Competences were created:

• Eco-Construction
• Owner-group Building model as instrument for civic participation
• Creation of social competences by owner group building

AND civic participation:

• Projects for disabled people, old people came later
• New project for traumatized refugee women

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Freiburg‘s next eco-district: Barely civic participation

Gutleutmatten

Plan:City of Freiburg

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But: Social Mixity and small units supposed to stimulate Communication

Plan:City of Freiburg, Liebenschaftsamt

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Next Eco-District: DIETENBACH

. . . still putting together the land

Plan: Stadtplanungsamt Stadt Freiburg

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„A city is not only streets and buildings. It consists also of the hopes and dreams of its inhabitants“ (Augustinus) Thank you for your attention!