Garden suburb

摘要

From their inception over 50 years ago, Germany's garden festivals - known as Bundesgartenschauen (BUGAs) - have been drivers of regeneration, bringing nature into shattered communities after the Second World War. In 1983, Munich hosted a festival whose legacy is the florid Westpark. But despite an impressive history of park and garden design - the Nymphenburg Palace, the English Garden and the Olympic Park - the city still has a paucity of green spaces as it continues to grow. The largest expansion is to the east, at Messestadt-Riem - formerly Munich's airfield and the site of this year's BUGA. The new community at Riem will total 16,000 people and is meant to be a model of 21 st-century development. The ambition is to create a 'sustainable' district of the city with a new 200ha landscape park as its crowning glory. The park should meet the recreational needs of more than 40,000 people, while enhancing the ecology of the Riem plain.