Bilfinger Berger Magazine 2/2007

Bilfinger BergerBilfinger Berger Magazine 2/2007

Magazine 2/2007 – City of the future

 

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Magazine 2/2007 – City of the future


 


Editorial
Ideas for Germany – Impetus for the city
More than three billion people live in cities—half of the global population.

 


Bilfinger Berger Award
Impetus for Germany
A doctoral student from Berlin, a lawyer from Sydney, a scientist from Oxford: the winners of the Bilfinger Berger Award present solutions to urban problems

 


Bilfinger Berger Award
London’s Renaissance
Libraries for troubled districts, a vehicle toll for the inner city: in London, projects are being implemented that elsewhere seem utopian

 


Bilfinger Berger Award
Finding common ground
In Australia, cities and communities are entering into alliance contracts for construction projects. The concept is largely unknown in Germany

 


Urban culture
Striking a chord
Duisburg is counting on culture. In the City Palais, the city has given its orchestra a concert hall with acoustics that impress the most seasoned musicians

 


Sun City
Sun City
In the United States, seniors are moving into retirement communities in ever-increasing numbers. There they can remain forever young

 


Slum City
Slum City
A million people live in Kibera, Nairobi’s largest slum. The number of such settlements is growing in Africa, but it is a trend that can be stopped

 


Interview
Urban culture
Lingang New City is being built near Shanghai and will eventually be home to 800,000 people. It was designed by Hamburg architect Meinhard von Gerkan

 


Citizens of the World
How do Bilfinger Berger staff see the future of their city?
Views from Abu Dhabi, Abuja, Munich, Sydney, Vancouver and Warsaw

 


Spectrum
Racing against the clock
Dresden’s new runway was built while the city’s airport was fully operative. That’s something that has never been done before in Europe.

 


Roads of the world
Expressways on stilts
In the Thai capital, expressways on 18-meter high stilts tower above the chronically congested city center. Their construction in the 1990s was a technical and logistical achievement of Herculean proportions