Green links for Wilhelmsburg

Green links for Wilhelmsburg, a neighbourhood of Hamburg, Germany, by Isin Barut

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Name	Green Links for Wilhelmsburg
Location	Wilhelmsburg/Hamburg
Country	Germany
Topic	creating green links for metropolitan landscapes-connecting peri-urban, rural, urban spaces with green links
Office	office or planner/designer
Client	Hamburg-Mitte
Completion	Please enter the date of completion
Project costs	Please enter the costs (if known)
Case study author(s)	Işın Barut
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Rationale: Why is this case study interesting?

• Please summarise:- e.g. Design Innovation? Planning Exemplar? Theoretical Insights? Lessons learned from its failure? [It doesn’t have to have been successful]

There is no wholeness beetween landscape units and usages in Wilhelmsburg, thats why the district needs good connections. As an peri-urban area it is necessary to keep the island character in the whole island therefore it needs weel designed and planned corridors together. To meet all nationalities live in Wilhelmsburg and contrast landscape chracters planning process will include two important dimensions: social and visual connection. Social dimension will effecct planning applications. For instance mental and visual links will be created for integrity.

• Think about it from the view of another educator/student in a different country. Why should I use this case study in my teaching/education?

This project will show how people characters are important for urban planning and after that what kind of design principles can be used for an european island located beetween strong metropolitans. Also how flora and fauna been kept in designed green links. What kind of green links can be used?

Author's perspective

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Besides having an original landscape and stuation Wilhelmsburg has several problems. There is a high rise imigration population and it is hard to meet all ethnic groups; also there are lots of unemployeds and crime incidents are also high. Wilhelmsburg has differences about visual and abstract things. From the planning perspective it needs to be generate and develop to make the island more liveabe and keep the special character of the landscape. In this respect this project will give the results of a big questions needs to be unswered for the island: -'How Landscape planning and Lansdcape architecture skills create rationalist solutions for a special area...' -What are the inputs of planning and design together to make solutions for development

Landscape and/or urban context

• Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

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Geography: Wilhelmsburg is a quarter (Stadtteil) of Hamburg, Germany within the borough (Bezirk) of Hamburg-Mitte. It is situated on an island between the Northern and Southern branches of the Elbe river (Norderelbe and Süderelbe), together with the other quarters of Steinwerder, Veddel and Kleiner Grasbrook. The latter almost exclusively consists of facilities of the port of Hamburg. The four quarters are technically all islands of their own, as they are all separated by their own dams.

In 2006 according to the statistical office of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, the quarter Wilhelmsburg has a total area of 35.3 square kilometres (14 sq mi). Wihelmsburg borders in the north to the quarters Steinwerder, Kleiner Grasbrook and Veddel. In the east are the quarters Spadenland and Ochsenwerder of the Bergedorf borough. In the south are the quarters Neuland and Harburg of the Harburg borough and the state of Lower Saxony and in the east are the quarters Moorburg and Altenwerder of the Harburg borough.

Cultural/social/political context

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History

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In 1642, George William, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg acquired three islets in the river Elbe and connected them by means of dams. The resultant island was named Wilhelmsburg in his honour.

In 1705, Wilhelmsburg became part of the Hanoverian state, which then subsequently became the Prussian Province of Hanover in 1866. In 1925 the Prussian authorities designated Wilhelmsburg as a city district, and merged it with nearby Harburg two years later to form the city of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg.

In 1937, Harburg-Wilhelmsburg, along with the cities from the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein, Altona and Wandsbek, was annexed to Hamburg in the Greater Hamburg Act.

During World War II the port of Hamburg and therefore Wilhelmsburg were targets of the air raids of the so called Operation Gomorrah. A subcamp to the Neuengamme concentration camp existed in Wilhelmsburg.

In the night from February 16 to February 17, 1962 Wilhelmsburg was widely flooded and seriously damaged by a north sea flood. On the river Elbe, but a full 100 km away from the coast, the residential area of Wilhelmsburg was most affected.

On March 1, 2008 Wilhelmsburg was transferred from the borough Harburg to the borough Hamburg-Mitte by a Hamburg law.

Nowadays Wilhelmsburg hosts different development projects like IGS 2013(international garden show) and IBA(international building)

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Analysis of program/function

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Analysis of design/planning process

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Analysis of use/users

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• Is the use changing? Are there any issues?

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Cross-cutting questions

How may landscape architecture contribute to the integration of different user groups in the urban fringe?

• Integration in an urban area
• Quality of life in rur-urban areas
• Flexibility of life styles

How can the transformation process be connected with the landscape sub-typologies?

• where does rural start?
• Rur-urban
• Dynamics flows between urban and peri-urban areas
• Monitoring land-use change

How may landscape planning contribute to quality improvement?

• Aesthetic quality
• Environmental quality
• Social quality

Can the maintenance and development of agricultural land-use in urban fringes be a strategy of a greenbelt?

• Agriculture in the urban fringe
• Agriculture as a green infrastructure element
• Green infrastructure
• Creating green links for wholeness
• Greenbelt, agriculture as a part of it

Future development directions

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Peer reviews or critique

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Points of success and limitations

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