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How do we improve the social, technological and communicative openness of our cities? And how do we enhance the inclusion of all citizens through creative interface management?These are just a few key questions of the Baumeister Topos Cities Initiative. The Cities Initiative is based on the assumption that the City of the Future will be a Smart City: Digitalisation not only shapes our everyday lives but also the urban development. The Smart City will improve the quality of life by using technology to refine the efficiency of services and meet residents’ needs. We engage architects, planners and decision makers in politics and business in a meaningful dialogue about the Future City and we will present innovative solutions that increase the quality of urban life.

MakeCity Festival: Planning for Diversity

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The second edition of the Berlin MakeCity Festival for Architecture and Urban Alternatives dealt with the mixed city and illuminated the role of open space for a diverse city. While land prices in Berlin have risen by up to 800 percent in recent years, the so-called “Berliner Mischung” (Berlin’s Mixing) is declining. This Berlin-specific, but equally […]

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Be(e)ing on top

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In Topos 101 our author Ute Strimmer reports how bee colonies accidentally came on the roof of the opera in Paris and how urban beekeeping has emerged as a new agratrend in our cities on the heels of urban gardening. This trend is possible because bees are now able to find a more varied diet in the cities than in the country. Learn here more about urban beekeeping and bee activism in L.A.!

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City Close Up

Extract from Topos 100 – Time: The city is a matrix that cannot be apprehended in its entirety at once. You cannot visit more than one place at a time. Circumventing this limitation, the French architect and photographer Jérémie Dru found a way to perceive the city – in his case Paris, his hometown – from more than just one point of view.

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The Why Factory

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We are facing a future full of questions – questions about the development of our cities. Especially in days of scepticism, populism and fear, we need answers of how visionary, green, fantastic, biodiverse, transparent, intimate, adaptable and emotional our future can be. The Why Factory, led by Winy Maas, founding partner of MVRDV tries to […]

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Smart Litter Receptacles Cut Waste Expense

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How can we improve our waste recycling systems? In our modern world the lifestyle of people is changing in an eco-friendly way. Everyone tries to reduce waste as much as possible and simultaneously everyday objects transform to smart intelligent objects. So it should come as little surprise that even within industries that are traditionally late […]

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