Development of Berlin's Waterfront

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Waterfront Location Development Plan for Berlin

Housing along the Landwehrkanal in the Kreuzberg borough

Berlin's participation in the EU program "Interreg II C - Baltic Sea Region - Waterfront
Urban Development" gave us the opportunity to draw up a Waterfront Location
Development Plan (WLDP) for the city as a whole. This plan is guided by the idea that
interior development has priority over outward expansion and by the Local Agenda 21 action
plan. The WLDP is being presented by the Senate Department for Urban Development at a
time when the exorbitant expectations of growth of the 1990s are being critically re-evaluated.
Realistic forecasts of the demographic, social, environmental, and economic situation suggest
that the city can and must continue sustainable growth in particularly attractive areas. The
gradual implementation of plans for smaller areas, rather than the designing of entire new
"cities on the water," seems to be the right response to changing needs and limited public
funds.
 
The city no longer considers itself as a builder    
but acts as a mediator for investors and users. It
sets the framework for the development of the
blue ribbon network, initiates and directs
procedures together with the various
representatives of the private sector, and tries to
eliminates bureaucratic obstacles.
 
Realistic forecasts of the demand side and the The bridge Monbijoubrücke and the
overabundance of land available for Kupfergraben along Museum Island
development in the region require clear in the Mitte borough
priorities. The development projects
"Wasserstadt (city on the water) Berlin-  
Oberhavel," "Parlaments- and Regierungsviertel
(parliament and government district)," and
"Rummelsburger Bucht (Rummelsburger bay)"
are being modified to meet demand. The current
public-private partnership projects "Westhafen"
and "Spreestadt (city on the Spree)
Charlottenburg" are being continued.
 
In addition, one of the key finding of the View from Heerstrasse to the
Waterfront Location Development Pan is that Stössensee lake in Spandau
projects in four areas of special importance
according to the city's development policy
should be launched in the short to medium
term. As many as 35,000 apartments and space
for up to 45,000 office jobs could be built in the
next few decades along a total of 18 km of
waterfront land.
  

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