Andreas Feldtkeller (city planner)

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Andreas Feldtkeller (born September 28, 1932 in Berlin-Charlottenburg ) is a German architect and urban planner .

Live and act

Andreas Feldtkeller studied architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart and at the Technical University of Berlin . He then worked in the field of property planning as well as in research and teaching in Stuttgart , Cologne and Kingston-upon-Thames in London. From 1963 to 1969 he worked for the regional planning association for the Neckar-Alb region .

In 1969 he started working for the city of Tübingen , where he was head of the city redevelopment office from 1972 to 1997. He was responsible for the renovation of the historic old town of Tübingen, for measures in the town center and the surrounding area, and for the conversion of barracks in the southern part of Tübingen. The concept and project implementation of the French Quarter urban development measure was awarded the German Urban Development Prize in 2001 and the European Urban Development Prize in 2002.

He has been working as a freelance urban planner since 1997. In his work and in his publications, he deals with topics such as mixed use , interior and district development , urban wasteland recycling and especially the subject of the “city of short distances”. In 1998 he introduced the term “interference avoidance” for mechanisms that are used to avoid contact with the outside world. He worked on the building research project EVALO (opening of adaptability for living places).

Fonts

  • with Hans skull (ed.): Churches and community centers. Krämer, Stuttgart 1956.
  • with Rudolf Schwarz : Churches of Today. Krämer, Stuttgart 1959.
  • with Jürgen Sydow: The Tübingen town hall. University town of Tübingen, Tübingen 1984.
  • The misappropriated city. against the destruction of public space. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-593-34921-3 . 2nd edition 1995.
  • Documents on Ernst Zimmer and the history of the Hölderlin Tower. Text and editing by Andreas Feldtkeller and Wilfried Setzler . Kulturamt, Tübingen 1997, ISBN 3-910090-21-4 .
  • (Ed.): Urban development: variety and integration. New concepts for dealing with urban wasteland. DVA, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-421-03276-9 .
  • The “city of short distances”. A mosaic of different qualities of life. In: Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig (Ed.): The new face of the city. Strategies for the urban future in the 21st century. Edited by the Heinrich Böll Foundation . Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-927760-52-8 .
  • On the everyday suitability of our cities. Interactions between urban planning and daily action. Schiler, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89930-278-3 .
  • (Co-author): French Quarter Tübingen. Photos: Andreas Feldtkeller. Stadtwandel, Regensburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86711-228-4 .
  • To the planning practice of the mixture. Prologue in: Klaus Schäfer (Ed.): Departure from the Zwischenstadt. Urbanization through migration and mixed use. transcript, Bielefeld 2018, ISBN 978-3-8376-4365-7 , pp. 13-19.

literature

  • Johannes Beck (Ed.): Diversity and Conflict. For Andreas Feldtkeller on his 70th birthday on September 28, 2002 by his colleagues from the research project EVALO (opening of adaptability for lively places). Ed. Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-382-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. In the trap. On the social responsibility of urban planning. Frankfurter Rundschau , January 30, 1998, see EVALO final report , p. 15, footnote 20