As a project organized by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Federal Government and local authorities, between 1990 and 1999 the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park (IBA) developed and implemented concepts for the ecological, economic and social renewal of the Ruhr District.
In the course of a total of 120 separate projects, the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park did not only give economic, social and cultural impetus, but especially considered the Ruhr District’s lack of nature and open spaces. This led to the creation of the Emscher Landscape Park between Duisburg and Dortmund.
For industrial spaces like the present Landscape Park area, economically sustainable new usages were devised which are compatible not only with the basic ecological concept, but also with IBA’s basic economic, social and cultural concepts. Today these projects are landmarks in their region and it is impossible to picture the modern townscape without them.
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