Helga Fassbinder
Helga Fassbinder (* 1941 in Baden-Baden ) is a German-Dutch urban planner and political scientist .
Life
Fassbinder attended the humanistic Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium in Heidelberg (Abitur 1960, school prize for history) and then studied art history and history at the Universities of Heidelberg and Marburg , architecture and urban planning (Dipl.-Ing.) And at the Technical Universities of Braunschweig and Berlin at the University of Bremen Political Science (Dr. rer. pol. summa cum laude).
She taught as a professor of urban planning and urban renewal at the Technical University of Eindhoven and the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, and as a visiting professor at various European universities. She was Chair of the Support Anne Frank Tree Foundation and is Chair of the Biotope City Foundation . Since 2006 she has been editor-in-chief of the international online journal Biotope City .
Act
Fassbinder represents a form of urban planning in which, in addition to citizen participation, public communication between the various urban actors, the representatives of the specialist disciplines involved and the political decision-makers play an essential role and the reintegration of elements of nature into the dense city as a central method combating the consequences of climate change and stabilizing social communities in urban areas.
Careful urban renewal
At the end of the 1960s she came up with the postulate of the renewal of inner cities through renovation and modernization and with activities in Berlin-Kreuzberg and various highly regarded publications countered the then prevailing deforestation and new building practice. From 1970 to 1975 she was a member of the Arch + editorial team .
In 1975 she was appointed to the first chair for urban renewal in Europe at the Technical University of Eindhoven (NL). She propagated the concept of a project-oriented, decentralized urban renewal and stimulated it with numerous lectures in European cities. In the 1980s she was actively involved in the European campaign for urban renewal and represented the Netherlands in Geneva at the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Committee on Housing, Building and Planning in the Urban and Regional Planning Working Party on the subject of area-based urban renewal .
From 1990 to 1998 she was head of the urban planning department at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg. In this function, she published the book series Harburg Reports on Urban Planning .
City Forum Berlin
In 1990 she developed the concept of a planning forum for Berlin, which was well received by the then Senator for Urban Development Volker Hassemer. She co-founded the Stadtforum Berlin and was a member of its steering group until 1996. She has the approach and experiences of the Stadtforum Berlin in a book publication with the title Stadtforum Berlin. Practice in cooperative planning laid down.
Anne Frank Chestnut
In 2007 she set up the Foundation Support Anne Frank Tree , which campaigned for the preservation of the “Anne Frank Tree”, the chestnut tree that Anne Frank took to the back of the house with her family on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam stopped, the only view from the skylight was. From February 2008 the foundation took care of this chestnut. The foundation bred seedlings of the chestnut, which were planted in various places in Europe and Israel as living memorials for tolerance, freedom and against racism. The foundation was abolished in 2013 and its tasks were transferred to the Weltbaum Foundation .
Biotopes City
In 2002, at the international congress of the same name at the TU Eindhoven, she presented the concept Biotope City , which includes the intensive greening of building structures as the most efficient and at the same time most cost-effective method of mitigating the effects of climate change and the concept of the highly dense city as a form of nature goes out. As a result, she established the Biotope City Foundation , which promotes the integration of nature in the dense city and a. has published the online journal Biotope City in four languages (in German, English, French, and Dutch) since 2006 .
From 2003 to 2013 Helga Fassbinder was a member and vice- chair of the Technical Advies Commissie Hoofdgroenstructuur ( Green Structure Commission) of the municipality of Amsterdam.
From 2011 she worked together with the Austrian architect Harry Glück and initiated the construction of a "Biotope City" in Vienna. From 2013 she worked in an advisory capacity on the "Biotope City Wienerberg" project, which is being built on the former Coca-Cola site on Wienerberg with around 1,000 apartments and follow-up facilities and which will be completed by the end of 2020. Since 2016, together with a team from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, she has been accompanying the planning and construction of this project scientifically as part of research. In 2018 this project received the status of a candidate pilot project for the International Building Exhibition Vienna (IBA) 2022.
She has published numerous books and articles on the topics of open planning, participation, planning strategies, urban renewal, housing construction, housing supply and design and, since 2002, primarily on the topic of urban development under climate change and the use of greenery to mitigate the effects of climate change. She is a member of the German Werkbund .
She lives in Amsterdam and Vienna.
literature
- Helga Fassbinder, Biotope City - the garden city of the 21st century. BIOTOPE CITY JOURNAL 2017
- Helga Fassbinder, A chestnut in Amsterdam / Un marronier d'Amsterdam. Les Editions Manson, Paris 2016
- Helga Fassbinder, De Stad as Natuur as Bouwopgave. BIOTOPE CITY JOURNAL, Amsterdam, 2014
- Helga Fassbinder, The City as Nature: Programming a U-Turn in Architecture and Urban Planning. BIOTOPE CITY JOURNAL, Amsterdam, 2012
- Helga Fassbinder, Stadtforum Berlin. Practice in cooperative planning. Hamburg 1995
- Helga Fassbinder, Isabel Bauer, it was important to be aware of having an influence. Experiences of women in building and planning in the GDR. Hamburg 1997
- Helga Fassbinder, Jos van Eldonk, Flexible Fixation. The paradox of Dutch housing architecture. Assen / Maastricht 1991
- Helga Fassbinder, Adrie Proveniers, New Wave in Buildings. A flexible way of design, construction and real estate management. Assen / Maastricht 1990
- H. Fassbinder ea, An area based approach to Urban Renewal. Ministry of Housing, Physical Planning and Environment, The Netherlands. The Hague 1987
further references on the homepage of Helga Fassbinder
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fassbinder, Helga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Dutch urban planner and political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baden-Baden |