
Could “100 square meters Dietzenbach” represent an alternative approach to the politically controversial way that Berlin’s old Tempelhof Airport was dealt with?
This is what’s going on in Dietzenbach:
Context
In 1973, decided to turn Dietzenbach into a spillover suburb for Frankfurt, with plans to increase the number of inhabitants from 6,000 to 60,000. The population in Dietzenbach today is only about half that number. The proposed developments of the 1960’s and 1970’s were never completed, and the town is now considered a problem district: alienating high-rise residential buildings, undeveloped tracts of ‘wasteland’, and super-sized roads and traffic routing. The “Dietzenbach – decidedly unfinished” project is an experiment in new forms of city planning.

Project Description
The project’s aim was to find new uses for abandoned land, and to learn how to shift the focus from expansion to re-development of the core areas that had been built. (more…)