Playground@Landscape

YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS

Articles in issue 2010 - 1

Planning, Designing, Building

Play-wood symbolises driftwood

It has caught the attention of strollers on the banks of the River Rhine in Bonn, that a large playground has been created next to the Kameha Grand Hotel.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

The innovative hockey pitch

It’s the difference that counts.
The Polytan product portfolio covers a complete performance range for sports facilities. This includes delivery and installation of classic synthetic turf and filled synthetic turf systems, elastic layers for artificial turf, polyurethane surfaces for athletic running tracks and all-weather pitches as well as line marking, repair and cleaning of sports facility surfaces.

Municipalities and Associations

Schwerte shouldn’t be left to dwindle away

Demographics describe, analyse and explain population structures, i.e. the composition of the population from groups, which vary due to specific characteristics such as age, gender or nationality and demographics also forecast their future development.

Municipalities and Associations

Crisis affects local tax revenue

The economic crisis has torn deep holes in the public funds of the Rhineland-Palatinate local authorities in the first three quarters. Compared to the previous year, local authority tax revenue sank by around 435 million EUR or 18 percent.

Municipalities and Associations

Heading towards excessive debt

According to the November tax assessment, public authorities will collectively earn almost 320 billion less by 2012; for the local authorities this is over 40 billion EUR or around 18 percent of their tax revenue. The consequence for Bochum: “catastrophic” – according to City Treasurer Manfred Busch.

Planning, Designing, Building

How children are crazy about museums

Participation as child’s play. In Germany a new generation of museums has originated, where visitors are no longer awestruck by exhibits. Touching is officially welcome – even by the whole family. Afterwards there’s the chance to run riot on the playground.

Planning, Designing, Building

Playground Godfather (Part 1)

Some times playgrounds are in bad state. The playground owners (private owners or communities) are, for a variety of reasons, not able to maintain the playgrounds properly.

Planning, Designing, Building

Naturally

Creative outdoor play company, Wicksteed Playscapes has welcomed the Government’s cash injection into England’s playgrounds and has already created a number of significant play areas which offer the ideal combination of natural play features and play equipment.

Planning, Designing, Building

Cleaner energy and attractive playground roof

abakus solar AG in Gelsenkirchen erects PV Frisbee at European School, Taipei.

Planning, Designing, Building

Youth park with fountain in Vienna

With the aim of fostering greater participation, a parkway was developed for children and teenagers with a robust, cost-effective fountain.

Planning, Designing, Building

Federal Court of Justice, obligatory supervision:

Children of a “normal-developed” child of 7 and a half shouldn’t supervise their child constantly when he or she is playing. They cannot be held responsible for infringement of obligatory supervision if the child causes damage.
(Federal Court of Justice VI ZR 199/08)

Planning, Designing, Building

Step by step children are exploring the world

When it’s time for a particular adventure, and how parents can support their little ones.

Planning, Designing, Building

Television – the most popular medium for children

The television is the most important medium for children between six and 13.

Planning, Designing, Building

Children don’t spend enough time outdoors

When it comes to motor function activities, children and teenagers today perform clearly worse on average than 30 years ago. Even simple balancing exercises are a challenge for them in sports.

Planning, Designing, Building

Noise pollution is no laughing matter

Every sixth child in Germany lives in a street with heavy traffic, according to a survey by the Umweltbundesamt (UBA) (Federal Environmental Agency).

Planning, Designing, Building

Children are less fit than before

An alarming development: The average 10-year-old today is clearly less fit than his contemporary 10 years ago. This was shown in a study in England.

Events

Playful energy at the Freispielberlin trade fair

Freispielberlin 2010, in connection to Bautec 2010 in Berlin, offers an excellent platform for the Year of Science 2010, which deals with the future of energy on our planet.

Playground Report

A combination of natural forest and innovative playground equipment

The good economic situation in up-and-coming regions such as the Baltic states is also mirrored in investments in tourism in these areas.

Events

Trade fair public10 creates a "Forum Playground"

With "Forum Playground", the trade fair public10 which takes place on May 18 and 19, 2010 in Stuttgart, has created its own seminar programme. Interested visitors can learn, among other things, how playgrounds can be made safer and whole cities be used as play areas.

Events

Clubs step into the spotlight

Active participation in clubs in everyday life represents an enormous enrichment in terms of quality of life in towns and communities. This is why on the 18 and 19 May 2010 at the upcoming Zukunft Kommune 2010 trade fair in Stuttgart, clubs are going to be getting much more involved.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Complete refurbishment of the sports ground “Tennenplatz” in Nürtingen

Neckarstadt – headquarters of the company Porplastic – can look back on a long tradition in competitive sports. TG Nürtingen has been in existence since 1859 and has been producing top athletes and providing a wide range of services for many decades.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

The innovative hockey pitch

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Sport on the roof

Optigrün International AG specialises in all aspects of green roof cultivation and is one of the market-leading companies in the green roofing sector. The Optigrün network creates approximately 2 million square metres of various green roof styles annually. But sport on the roof is possible, too.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Quantensprung 2010 (Quantum Leap 2010)

By launching the club competition “Quantum Leap 2010 – club work in the coming decade”, the Bavarian regional sports federation “Bayerischer Landessportverband” (BLSV) and Lotto Bayern support innovative projects in Bavarian sports clubs.