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Sustainable improvement of the urban climate requires the preservation and expansion of green, but also blue infrastructures. This results in a considerable additional demand for water during the growing season and especially during midsummer heat waves.
Alternative water resources must be tapped, their suitability for irrigation determined, storage methods tested, and new forms of public green space developed.
The project "Integrated Strategies for Strengthening Urban Blue-Green Infrastructures" INTERESS-I focuses on this challenge and investigates the conditions for success and barriers to an integrated urban blue-green infrastructure using the examples of Stuttgart and Frankfurt.
Research questions and studies
More urban greenery also requires more urban blue. But where does the water for cool parks and shady trees come from? How is it treated, where is it stored? Are new forms of urban green needed? The INTERESS-I research project is investigating these questions and developing and testing the necessary integrated strategies together with experts from administration, business and research as well as urban society in Frankfurt and Stuttgart. This is being done at different scale levels, from city-wide considerations of neighborhood-based developments to model implementations in the Stuttgart and Frankfurt impulse projects.
In addition, the research partners deal in depth with the following topics
- demand-based management of vegetated soil filters (TU Kaiserslautern)
- storage modeling and dimensioning of retention reservoirs (University of Stuttgart, ISWA)
- Vegetation analyses using remote sensing methods (University of Stuttgart, ILPÖ)
- Actor analyses of blue-green infrastructure (Institute for Social-Ecological Research)
- Research by Design, documentation of microclimatic effects of vertical greening systems (TU München, GTLA)
Project Partners
- TU Kaiserslautern
- Universität Stuttgart
- Technical University of Munich
- Institute for social-ecological science
- Helix-Pflanzen GmbH
- Stuttgart
- Frankfurt
Events/Publications
Events:
Events on the project results are planned in the course of 2021, particularly in connection with the Stuttgart impulse project. The events will be implemented adapted to the development of the Corona pandemic.
Publications:
2020
- Steger, L., Well, F., Ludwig, F.: Blau-grüne Infrastrukturen: Transformationsstudien urbaner Freiräume am Beispiel Frankfurts. Transforming Cities (1), 2020, 56-61
- Well, F., Ludwig, F.: Blue–green architecture: A case study analysis considering the synergetic effects of water and vegetation. Frontiers of Architectural Research (9), 2020, 191-202
2019
- Eisenberg, B., Well, F., Ludwig, F.: Neues urbanes Grün - Freistehende Vertikalbegrünung für das Stadtklima. Ernst & Sohn - Special Gebäudebegrünung, 2019
- Eisenberg, B., Well, F., Ludwig, F.: Integrierte Strategien zur Stärkung blau-grüner Infrastrukturen: Verbesserung des Stadtklimas und der Aufenthaltsqualität als Maßgabe zukunftsfähiger Stadtentwicklung. Transforming Cities (3), 2019, 56-59