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Vernissage: ADAS - Autopsy of the car-friendly city
In many major German cities, large inner-city traffic areas were newly created as part of the reconstruction measures after the Second World War. From today's perspective, it is difficult to comprehend that these infrastructures and the accompanying destruction of established urban spaces were seen as sensible interventions at the time they were created - and were socially accepted.
The exhibition presents nine well-known examples such as the Nord-Süd-Fahrt in Cologne, Hamburg's Ost-West-Straße, the City-Ring in Hanover and the elevated roads in the centers of Ludwigshafen and Bremen, some of which date back to the 1910s. It becomes clear that these are representative spaces of post-war society, with important cultural buildings and new functions of the then emerging service society. A video installation conveys impressions of the current situation.
A third part is dedicated to Holländischer Platz in University of Kassel, whose car-friendly conversion cut off the university campus and the adjacent street spaces from the city center. Concrete projects show examples of how to deal with the legacy of the car-friendly city - and how to initiate a comprehensive improvement of the situation.
Exhibition
Wed. May 4 - Wed. May 25, 2022 // 10:00 - 17:00
Contact
Stefan Rettich - Department Urban planning
rettich[at]asl.uni-kassel[dot]de
Info
www.uni-kassel.de/go/staedtebau