Baukultur influences and moves people everywhere in Germany.
In the new podcast episode “Hallo Hamburg! Rebuilding the city ”, Karen Pein, Managing Director of IBA Hamburg, discusses building culture with her guest. Reiner Nagel, Chairman of the Board of the Federal Baukultur Foundation, describes the urban development adaptation to climate change, the avoidance of CO2 in planning and building, and the issue of mobility as the current issues in Baukultur. The challenges include resource-efficient planning and construction as well as the limits of structural growth that are associated with this. Reiner Nagel sees it as important to design urban growth qualitatively with the necessary qualification of the existing structure or the renovation of the city. Hamburg could also take on this task more strongly.
Depending on the definition, there are around 4 million people in Germany who deal with building culture in their daily work. These include architects, planners, development agencies, the construction and real estate industry, administration and financial service providers. The Bundesstiftung Baukultur publishes thematic Baukultur reports every two years and thus also advises the Federal Government and the Bundestag on Baukultur. This is defined here as “the sum of all human achievements and activities to actively shape our environment”.
In the current Baukultur Report 20/21 it was demonstrated that, for example, high-quality designed open spaces and paths in a city lead to a 70% increase in the willingness of the population to travel longer distances in the city if these paths are interesting. “Nobody wants to go boring paths”. With a high-quality design of the open spaces, an important contribution to the change in mobility behavior can be achieved, in which more people leave their car and walk or ride a bike.
You can find all episodes of the podcast here.
–
