Hartmut Topp

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Hartmut H. Topp (* 1942 in Berlin ) is a German engineering scientist , urban and transport planner and moderator of planning processes and participation procedures .

Life

Topp studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Berlin and at the University of Karlsruhe with a specialization in traffic, urban and regional planning. He was a scientific assistant to Hans-Georg Retzko , later Topp was university lecturer for transport at the TU Darmstadt , where he received his Dr.-Ing. PhD. Afterwards he was head of the traffic planning department of the engineering firm BGS in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1980, Topp founded the international planning office Retzko + Topp in Darmstadt, of which he was a partner until 2010. From 1981 to 2007 he taught and researched as a professor and institute director at the Institute for Mobility and Transport (imove) at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern .

Topp has been operating under the name topp.plan: Stadt.Verkehr.Moderation since 2011. He is a moderator, speaker at conferences and judge of urban planning competitions. His current topics are sustainable mobility, climate protection in traffic, city of short distances, mobility network with public transport, on foot, bicycle and car sharing, streets and squares as living spaces and design for all.

Topp spent research semesters in the USA, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, Chile and Colombia. In 1998 he and others received the German Urban Development Award for the Düsseldorf on the Rhine project with the Rhine bank tunnel . He is a member of the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning and the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning ; He was a member of the board of trustees of the International Building Exhibition (IBA) Hamburg 2013 and a UN expert group for the master plan of the holy places of Islam in Mecca and Medina .

literature

  • Environmentally compatible traffic load capacity of urban roads - a compensatory approach. In: road and highway. 35, No. 11, 1984.
  • Approach to reducing traffic expenditure - less traffic with the same mobility? In: International Transport. 46, No. 9, 1994.
  • Separate markets for apartment and parking space. In: International Transport. 50, No. 7/8, 1998.
  • Traffic 2042 - Mosaic of a Vision. In: Transport Policy. 9, No. 1, 2002.
  • Temporary closure, conversion and staging of major urban roads. In: traffic signs. 24, No. 1, 2008.
  • Public car and private public transport - synergies and competition in the mobility network. In: Local transport. 31, No. 6, 2013.
  • Adapting road traffic to the needs of older people. In: Series Mobility and Age of the Eugen Otto Butz Foundation No. 07. TÜV Media GmbH, Cologne 2013.
  • Repair of the car-friendly city. (with Huber-Erler) In: Bauwelt. 24.2014, Stadtbauwelt 202. City and car.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. German Städtebaupreis 1998 - baunetz.de . Retrieved June 13, 2014.