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    HafenCity Hamburg, Germany is Europe's largest inner-city development project located on the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany. It replaces an outdated industrial harbor with mixed-use areas including offices, housing, community spaces, and public areas. Developers' proposals are evaluated against sustainability criteria beyond energy like walkability, public transit, district heating from renewable sources, and reducing car ownership through car sharing.

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    HafenCity Hamburg, Germany is Europe's largest inner-city development project located on the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany. It replaces an outdated industrial harbor with mixed-use areas including offices, housing, community spaces, and public areas. Developers' proposals are evaluated against sustainability criteria beyond energy like walkability, public transit, district heating from renewable sources, and reducing car ownership through car sharing.

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    HafenCity Hamburg, Germany is Europe's largest inner-city development project located on the Elbe River in Hamburg, Germany. It replaces an outdated industrial harbor with mixed-use areas including offices, housing, community spaces, and public areas. Developers' proposals are evaluated against sustainability criteria beyond energy like walkability, public transit, district heating from renewable sources, and reducing car ownership through car sharing.

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    HafenCity Hamburg, Germany

    Currently Europe’s largest inner-city development project, HafenCity is located in the heart of the
    maritime city of Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city, on the northern flank of the river Elbe. The
    project replaces an outdated industrial harbor in a central city location, and transforms an underused area
    into a walkable and bikeable mixed use ‘knowledge-economy’ area with new offices, community
    facilities, residential and leisure areas and a high number of public spaces.

    HCH evaluates the proposals of all prospective developers and architects against its own
    HafenCity Ecolabel, which looks beyond energy performance. The sustainability issues include a fine-
    grained mixture of uses, a high degree of walkability, excellent public transport (subway line and fuel-cell
    buses), district heating with 92% renewable energy and the reduction of individual car-ownership by
    station-based car sharing systems.

    Resilient cities and neighborhoods will prioritize walking as the preferred mode of travel, and as
    a defining component of a healthy quality of life.

    Reducing car-dependency is a key objective and imperative. Luckily, the alternative modes of
    transportation – namely walking, cycling, and transit – result in more sustainable urban environments, and
    in an improved quality of life. It are the cities and neighborhoods that have prioritized walking, that have
    created desirable locations to live, work, play, and invest in.
    Letchworth Garden City
    As one of the world's first new towns and the first garden city it had great influence on future
    town planning and the New towns movement; it influenced Welwyn Garden City, which used a similar
    approach and inspired other projects around the world including the Australian capital Canberra, Hellerau
    in Germany, Tapanila in Finland and Mežaparks in Latvia. There is a link to town planning in Stalingrad
    through the architect V. N. Semionov and an account of Lenin visiting the town when he visited England
    for a congress of the Russian Bolshevik party, then banned in Russia.

    In 1898, the social reformer Ebenezer Howard wrote a book entitled To-morrow: A Peaceful Path
    to Real Reform (later republished as Garden Cities of To-morrow), in which he advocated the
    construction of a new kind of town, summed up in his three magnets diagram as combining the
    advantages of cities and the countryside while eliminating their disadvantages. Industry would be kept
    separate from residential areas—such zoning was a new idea at the time—and trees and open spaces
    would prevail everywhere. His ideas were mocked in the press but struck a chord with many, especially
    members of the Arts and Crafts movement and the Quakers.

    According to the book the term "garden city" derived from the image of a city being in a belt of
    open countryside (which would contribute significantly to food production for the population), and not, as
    is commonly cited, to a principle that every house should have a garden.

    The concept outlined in the book is not simply one of urban planning, but also included a system
    of community management. For example, the Garden City project would be financed through a system
    that Howard called "Rate-Rent", which combined financing for community services (rates) with a return
    for those who had invested in the development of the city (rent). The book also advocated a rudimentary
    form of competitive tendering, whereby the municipality would purchase services, such as water, fuel,
    waste disposal, etc., from (often local) commercial providers. These systems were never fully
    implemented, in Letchworth, Welwyn or their numerous imitators.

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