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]

Hamburg is one of the most important port trade center in Europe and as a district of Hamburg Wilhelmsburg has a good potential and attractiveneness by having a commercial port in the west. Thats why %43,2 inhabitants are immigrants from 40 different nationalities in Wilhelmsburg. Besides this cultural variety Wilhelmsburg also has special landscape characters and unique landscape elements (dikes, ditches, marshland etc.) Except various contrasts between people and the island has a big avareness problem. Many people live in Hamburg has never been in Wilhelmsburg and many people dont know that its the biggest river island in europe. And there is a metropolitan pressure to the island as the result of stucking between 2 big metropolis: Hamburg and Harburg. To solve these problems planning and desgin proposals will integrate and develop the area. The main proposal will be 'linking green areas' has two meanings in this step: -to create visual links between landscapes -to create a mental links between different nationalities Social problems will be solved by useing design and planning approachs together, it makes this project more interesting. For instance mental and visual links will be created for social and visual 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 what kind of design and planning principles can be used for an european island located beetween metropolitans. Also how flora and fauna been kept in green links concept. What kind of linking approachs can be used for area problems and social problems? This project will be an example after seeing the results of planning&desgin success for solving integration problems and developping an island to reach the same quality with Hamburg city.

Author's perspective

• What theoretical or professional perspective do you bring to the case study? Please answer from your personal perspective.

From the planning perspective it needs to be generated and developped 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 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?

The planning and design approach will be:

1.Designating a pilot area

2.Designating a second pilot area closed to first pilot area

3.Focusing on a suitible area for design approach

4.Detailing a modal area in a smaller scale

5.Explaning the results of the project principles

Furthermore the idea is Linking the Green Areas in Wilhelmsburg Island. This planning proposal will be generated with design skills.

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

• Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

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Demographics: Wilhelmsburg is situated in between, and is home to almost 50,000 inhabitants - including many port and industrial workers. The area has high numbers of immigrant residents, but is also rich in picturesque waterfront locations. Wilhelmsburg is cut off from the development poles north and south of the river by the Elbe River. The island community of Wilhelmsburg has experienced social difficulties including high unemployment, poverty and crime for some time. In 2006 there were 7,204 criminal offences (147 crimes per 1,000 people).

In 2006 Wilhelmsburg had 49,132 inhabitants. 22.6% of the population were under the age of 18, and 14.6% were 65 years of age or older. 33.7% were resident aliens. 4,298 people were registered as unemployed.

In 1999 there were 21,345 households out of which 26.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them and 39.9% of all households were made up of individuals.

The average household size was 2.18.

A move to the far right in recent elections and intense protests against a proposal to install a waste incinerator in the area have contributed to a poor image and reputation for this section of the waterfront.

History

• How did the area/project/plan at the focus of the case study evolve?

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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)

After the 15th century: -Farm lands, small channels, river beds, sandbanks, islands

1621, Wilhelmsburg islands

1700, Wilhelmsburg islands

Spatial analysis of area/project/plan

• What are the main structural features?
• How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

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Infrastructure:

Transportation system: Wilhelmsburg is serviced by the rapid transit system of the city train with the Wilhelmsburg station. In 1983, the first part of Hamburg's southern S-Bahn line from Central Station toward Harburg were completed and opened with the new Wilhelmsburg station. The railway station is located in the quarter Wilhelmsburg in the Hamburg-Mitte borough of the city of Hamburg, Germany.

Wilhelmsburg is serviced by the rapid transit system of the city train with the Wilhelmsburg station. In 1983, the first part of Hamburg's southern S-Bahn line from Central Station toward Harburg were completed and opened with the new Wilhelmsburg station. The railway station is located in the quarter Wilhelmsburg in the Hamburg-Mitte borough of the city of Hamburg, Germany.

The Köhlbrandbrücke is a major connection from Wilhelmsburg to the nearby motorway 7. According to the Department of Motor Vehicles (Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt), in the quarter Wilhelmsburg were 13,714 private cars registered (280 cars/1,000 people).

Analysis of program/function

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• How have they been expressed or incorporated?

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Analysis of design/planning process

• How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
• Were there any important consultations/collaborations?

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Analysis of use/users

• How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
• 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

Why do people meet?

-Education -Sharing experiences and discussing -Relaxing(doing group sports, dancing etc...) -Creating something -Not to feel themselfs alone

What should the planner and designer generate?

-If we give people a quality area and good functions about the place then the usage will suddenly increases

Quality:

-Accessible places -Peacefull atmosphere-by useing natural values with design elements -Useing contrasts

Variety:

-Make people reflect their own interests and give them places to meet under the same intrest -Events for public participation -Different leisure activity facilities

Continuousness: This function is very important for this project to keep the given places and given functions alive

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

• How is the area/project/plan evolving?
• Are there any future goals?

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Peer reviews or critique

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• What were their main evaluations?

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Points of success and limitations

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