Completed research projects

How can we empower people to participate in the debate about how we or future generations want to live - or not want to live or should live - in the city of the future? How can we encourage them to question the paths we have taken and to participate in the development and implementation of a major urban transformation?

Despite numerous individual studies on municipal parks, which in Germany are often referred to as Volksparkanlagen, there is still no comprehensive work on this special category of public parks, which were established in various German cities from the beginning of the 20th century until the end of the Weimar Republic.

Research into the integration of animal needs in urban development

Following on from the preliminary work of the former head of department, Professor Maria Spitthöver, and building on the basic research for the 2010 exhibition "The Productive City - Carrot City", a research focus on urban community gardens is being established at the Department, which deals with the question of what specific scientific and practical planning contribution landscape architecture can make to this topic.