Grün: Let’s break it up

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We must not grow weary of demanding new thinking and planning in the design of urban and rural spaces.

While the primacy of the city, which once unabatedly sprawled in to the landscape, used to be the focus, the current emphasis is on the landscape conquering urban space and blending it with nature.

New urban landscapes emerge as a hybrid of built, open, and natural spaces.

To develop quality of life under the conditions of climate change, we require nature with its vegetative power, clean air, healthy soil, and water.

Nature-based methods are sought to create the foundations for a new urban spring through a dialectic of plant and architectural elements. This involves breaking the concrete of the past (and old ways of thinking)

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