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Learning from Cities— The 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
Background of the Initiative To s u p p o r t t h e n e w u r b a n development program of Hamburg, “Leap over River Elbe”, and to connect the city centre with the southern administrative regions, the Hamburg Senate decided in 2005 to present the International Building Exhibition (IBA) and the International Garden Show (IGS) in Wilhelmsburg. In order to realize the coordinated organizing, the Hamburg government founded two city-owned companies cooperating in structure and management in 2006. In 2013, to facilitate the development of over 70 projects in Wilhelmsburg, IBA specified three themes and one of them is “cities and climate change”. This theme is selected based on the following considerations: first, it’s concerned with governance; second, 55,000 inhabitants are living in an Island near the Elbe which suffered from the flood in 1962.
□ Cityscape of Hamburg
The foundation for making the IBA area a more energy efficient environment
renewable energy and at the same time
is the “Climate Protection Concept
to considerably improve the utilization
Renewable Wilhelmsburg”, which
efficiency of local energy consumption.
was implemented by an international committee of experts in collaboration with IBA from 2008 to 2010. The idea behind the resulting “Energy Atlas” is that we need to utilize the city’s (or district’s) local energy resources to supply
Implementation of the Initiative The major part of “Climate Protection