Hannover Kronsberg: model of a sustainable new urban community

By Anke Benstem, Angelika Wenau Institution: Kronsberg Environmental Agency (KUKA) GmbH

A description of a long-term construction project to build homes for 15,000 people in 6,000 units on the Kronsberg hill, south-east of Hannover, adjacent to the site of EXPO 2000, with the aim that it should be an exemplary project in its approaches to urban and social planning and environmental measures, and thus itself a world exposition exhibit. Salient features are urban and landscape planning, ecology and technology, infrastructures and the social habitat under an umbrella of co-operative project development.

Author: Anke Benstem, Angelika Wenau Institution: Kronsberg Environmental Agency (KUKA) GmbH

Also available - An introduction by Dr. Katie WilliamsOxford Centre for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University