Communtiy planning workshop stimulates civic participation in a reformation of the Schlossplatz in Berlin

Discussions about a redesign of the Schlossplatz in Berlin are going on for years. Should the `Palast der Republik´ from the GDR period be redeveloped or better the old palace `Stadtschloss´ be reconstructed? Should the realisation be left to privat financiers, facing empty public budgets?

Those and related questions were topics of an open communtiy planning weekend organised by John Thompson & Partners, agency of architecture and urban planning, London, and the Berliner MATCH-Entwicklungsberatung (von Zadow) under patronage of the Senat Departement for Urban Building.

→ download, in German, `Difu-Bericht 3/1997´

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Communtiy planning workshop stimulates civic participation in a reformation of the Schlossplatz in Berlin

In Europe we carry out work in partnership with a broad team of experts whose specialised local skills and knowledge ensure that our projects respond to the specific cultural, social, economic and environmental context of a place