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DEVELOPMENT OF
A CREATIVE URBAN DISTRICT IN COLOGNE: DQE

This project is the winner of the competition “Create.NRW”, offered by the North Rhine-Westphalia Department of Trade and Industry on behalf of the European Union. Within three years, the project office will develop strategic concepts for structuring the Ehrenfeld district spatially and conceptually – and will successively transform the former “working-class neighbourhood” into a centre for young international design. more...

SABINE VOGGENREITER: CREATIVE CITYSCAPE KÖLN EHRENFELD

As part of the ‚renaissance of cities,‘ an age-old topos reinvents itself: The creative city is back. Under the auspices of an economic structural change and counter to wide-spread assumptions that tangible urban structures are subordinated to global processes, the idea and necessity of complex local infrastructures as urban and socio-spatial milieus are one of the prerequisites for the development of creativity and innovation. more...