Fritz Müller and Urban Planning
A Cultural and Environmental Route as regional development
Stories for the cities of the future
When we project the future of a city, we are imagining a story. If people believe in this story and identify with it, they will be able to cooperate to make that future happen. But… What stories are told for our cities?
The Isar
The Isar river (Munich, Germany) was straightened and walled in, and went through a recent restoration process.
Cities and Rivers: the need for a new mindset
It does not make any sense to knock down long stretches of the gallery forest to build concrete walls, with the aim of achieving the image of the international river used as imagetical reference. There are several good examples that integrate the city and nature through the rivers.
From mining waste to parks
In the Ruhr region, small mountains were created with mining waste materials. Currently greed and restored, they are parks for preservation and leisure.
Boosting Lages development through the territory
The city should provide an environment that stimulates creativity and innovation for its residents.
German Chancellor Fellowship – Reflections
Reflections on the times in Germany, the new values of the society and the relation with cities
Guimarães and the human scale
The center of the city of Guimarães is today a living room of the city, explains the architect Manuel Roque.
Ribeira da Granja, daylighting streams in Portugal
As a pilot project, the process started in the Ribeira da Granja made the practice to bury the rivers and make them run through the pipes water under the bridge now. "Portugal is no longer 'tubing' rivers," says Pedro Teiga.
Interconnected parks
Brazil can take full advantage of the rivers to create interconnected parks along them, bringing more leisure, active mobility and valuing the landscape.