A high-ranking Iranian delegation held joint meetings at TU Berlin to decide upon crucial aspects within the Strategic Project Dimensions Urban Development & Design as well as Design Structure Energy-Efficiency. The delegation comprised Prof. Dr. Fatemi Aghda (President of BHRC), Eng. Farjami (Deputy Minister, MHUD), Eng. ZakerAlHosseini (CEO of NTDC), Dr. Parhizkar (Vice President of [...]
<!– /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:””; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:”Times New Roman”; mso-fareast-font-family:”Times New Roman”;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:70.85pt 70.85pt 2.0cm 70.85pt; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} –>From August 25th to August 28th 2008 a German delegation visited BHRC for a three-day workshop. The delegation included Prof. [...]
We are glad to announce the further extended funding of the Young Cities project! The Project will be funded from 2008-2013 by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as a part of the main phase of the research programm “The Urban Transition – Research for the Sustainable Development of the Mega-Cities of Tomorrow”.
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The regular first project phase ended in September 2007. The project submitted a new application to the BMBF for another five year phase of funding. Until this application is approved or rejected Sebastian Seelig is the interim project manager. All other members of the project center are now involved in other projects. We thank them [...]
The third workshop and the last of the trilogy focussed on systemic sustainable production of urban, building and technical infra-structures togethar with climatic and social issues. Here also targets and products where defined and potential partners named.
Tied up to the last workshop, this one was concentrated on engery efficiant cities with regards to specific Iranian problems. Again with involvement of external and internal experts the main tasks and steps for the next project phases were defined and approved. Also possilbe products and future partners from sientific or economic side were taken [...]
Due to internal and external circumstances climate change and energy became more important for the project recently. Although sustainability was key important for all development in the past, it is nessesary to focus even more on this topic. This workshop was the kick-off and in a combination of presetations held by external experts and project [...]
Tehran and Hashtgerd New Town, 25/11-29/11/2006 From November 25th until November 29th 2006 the next bilateral workshop was hold at Building and Housing Research Center in Tehran and at the local branch of New Towns Development Corporation in Hashtgerd New Town. Several german team members from Berlin participated in the successful workshop. The project is [...]
Tehran, Hashtgerd New Town and Parand New Town, 18/11-28/11/2006 From November 18th until November 28th 2006 students of the TU Berlin travelled to Tehran, and the New Towns of Hashtgerd and Parand to do research for their diploma thesises on different topics concerning the Young Cities Project. They met with representatives of the NTDC and [...]
Almere (Netherlands), 22/11-23/11/2006 From November 22th until November 23th 2006 Eng Seelig, assistant for urban planning & urban design at the Project Centre attended the foundation and first seminar of the International New Towns Institute (» INTI). The seminar focussed on different aspects of New Towns in history and recent planning approaches. The INTI will become [...]
