Rhein-Main Regional Park
Regional parks as informal tool of spatial planning at the example of Rhein-Main metropolitan area
| Name | Regional park Rhein-Main | |
| Place | Rhein-Main metropolitan area | |
| Country | Germany | |
| Topic | landscape management,regional parks, agglomerations | |
| Author(s) | Nils Pudewills | |
| Completion | From 1994 and still developing | |
| Client | Agglomeration planning associaton Regional park Rhein-Main and subregional publicy owned companies | |
| Project costs | unknown | |
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Rationale: Why is this case study interesting?
Urban agglomerations are growing at the expense of the surrounding landscape. But landscape is more than a resource for ongoing settlement activity.
In order to save the remaining open spaces in between the settlements the idea to establish a Regional park in the Rhein-Main area was conceived. The basic idea is to connect local highlights with a grid of foot- and cycle pathes.
Aim of the case study is to analyse the steps gone on the way to a Regional-park.
Regional parks as strategy to save open spaces can be transferred to metropolitan areas all over the world.
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Landscape and/or urban context
The Rhine-Mine area is a urban agglomeration in central Germany. It is located in the south of the federal state Hesse. It is a polycentric area named after the core city Frankfurt and the river Rhine and Main. Rhine-Main area is a relative flat area in the northern part of the upper rhine rift. The lowland is surrounded by the low mountain ranges Taunus, Spessart, Odenwald, Hunsrück and Vogelsberg.
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History
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Spatial analysis of area/project/plan
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Core Questions Working Group Green Structure Planning
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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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Future development directions
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Peer reviews or critique
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References
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Links in English:
Links in German:
http://www.regionalpark-rheinmain.de/
http://www.planungsverband.de/
http://www.rhein-mainische-forschung.de/atlas/
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