“How do we want to live?” – This was the title of the digital open space for the Heinrich Böll Foundation’s alumni association on the 6th of September 2020. The motto says it all: The open space format offers an open exchange, which collects experiences, concerns and expertise
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Participation often takes place where citizens know they can immediately change something. Ada Colau postulates the ‘politics of proximity’ as strategic advantage of cities and sees it likewise as their duty to deliver on that promise. How does participation take place when spatial proximity in times of Covid-19
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The first Trialog of the project New Urban Agenda Berlin, which we promoted together with the Technical University Berlin, dealt with the question how a new traffic system in Berlin should look like. Participants of science, politics and administration, the private sector and civil society organizations have talked about
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This week Berlin’s senate is going to vote on a bill on mobility. The legislation aims at making Berlin’s traffic more mobile, saver and primarily climate friendly. Climate neutrality until 2050 is on the agenda. There are different proposals and heavy debates on how this goal can be
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Today the state-owned housing companies degewo, GESOBAU, Gewobag, HOWOGE, STADT UND LAND and WBM presented their guidelines for participation together with Prof. Dr. Gesine Schwan, president of Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform and Katrin Lompscher, senator for urban development and housing. The motto is: transparent, reasoned, constructive and reliable. For the
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