Green Innovation in Urban Scale: Activation of Small Cities through Horticultural Exhibitions in Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region

3rd World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering, Architecture, Urban Planning Symposium

土木建筑工程;文学

Wojcik-Popek, Agnieszka^1

Cracow University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Institute of City and Regional Design, ul. Warszawska 24, Cracow

31-137, Poland^1

关键词: Collective transport;    Cultural identity;    Economical problems;    Green innovations;    Landscape architecture;    Metropolitan area;    Metropolitan regions;    Territorial development;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/471/11/112100/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/471/11/112100

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Garden exhibitions in Germany are organizing urban structures for almost 70 years. Their special formula is premised on choosing degraded areas in different cities. The open-air garden exhibition is open to public for 5-6 months. Then the area is turned into multifunctional leisure park with various sport and cultural facilities. The paper main objective is to analyze the impact of BUGA (abbrev. Bundesgartenschau) garden exhibition on medium and small urban structures. Analyzed cities: Brandenburg an der Havel, Premnitz, Rathenow and Havelberg are located within 85 km radius from the German capital-Berlin. With almost 4 million inhabitants it is a main city of Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, inhabited by over 6 million people. Analyzed settlements are located in the Havelland region on western extremities of the metropolitan area. They were hosts of first fully decentralized BUGA (Federal Garden Exhibition) 2015 horticultural exhibition, held at the same time in five venues. Analyzed settlements have population varying from 70 thousands (Brandenburg an der Havel) to 6,6 thousands (Havelberg). They have subsequently different significance in territorial development. However, in the shadow of great European metropolis they are facing very similar socio-economical problems, reflecting urban structure. These settlements, subject to emigration, were gradually degrading. The BUGA 2015 horticultural exhibition was meant to give the new impulse for these settlements. The main objective of the exhibition was to create new positive image of these places by investments in degraded, but still important for local society, public spaces. In general, it was an event promoting the whole trail linking the cities in the Havel River Valley. Each stop, the city or village had different genius loci highlighted and reflected by both revitalized and new structures. Horticultural exhibitions are widely recognized media-events in Germany. Therefore, they function as a travel magnet. They also educate the society not only in terms of horticultural novelties and landscape architecture latest trends, but also in wider aspects like ecological and aesthetic awareness. In decentralized form of the hiking trail, like in Havel River Valley it promotes the whole region. The tradition and spirit of the place become real in festival-related constructed environment. For municipality it is an honour to be a host city of the exhibition. Many local companies are usually involved in the whole process of preparations and promoted during the festival. All this builds and strengthens the cultural identity of the local society. Local society involvement is very important in terms of nurturing cultural distinctiveness, which is one of the main elements driving cultural tourism. Also increased tourist traffic promotes local businesses. The festival as an impulse, forces improvement of municipalities weaknesses e.g. collective transport and infrastructure, which enables further development of tourism and associated services.