Biotope City

Biotope City is an urban planning concept of the " city as nature," which was presented under this name in 2002 by Helga Fassbinder means of an eponymous international urban planning conference at the Technical University of Eindhoven. The concept explicitly refers to high-density cities, and postulated a new green aesthetics for urban development, which not only demands of sustainability into account with a new form of language, but also provides people with ways of expressing their desire for closeness to nature.

The concept Biotope City sees the city as in nature, ie the city is described as one of the various manifestations of nature. Thus, the old urban-rural contrast is dismissed as a no longer tenable conception. This is justified by empirical findings, which confirm that the biodiversity in urban areas is higher than in the country, which only has an impoverished form of nature with its monoculture in large parts.

Biotope City is based on an integral view of life in its many forms as a mutually supportive system of which the listening man too.

Since 2006, appears to this concept, the online journal BIOTOPE CITY, work on the numerous professionals from various disciplines from all over Europe and the United States. The journal contains articles and reports in the languages ​​German, French, English and Dutch.