Playground@Landscape

YOUR FORUM FOR PLAY, SPORTS UND LEISURE AREAS

Articles in issue 2013 - 5

Planning, Designing, Building

Ready, steady, PVP! Fun and games with anti-slip and impact protection.

Coverstory

A modern city of sport – sports, exercise and play in Cologne

Cologne is a city that has a history reaching back 2000 years and a unique, in-imitable personality infused with a diversity and vitality manifested in many different ways in local business, culture and tourism and generally across a broad spectrum of its public life.

Coverstory

Getting the city moving

Sport-Agenda Köln 2015 represents the first framework programme designed for the strategic promotion of sports in the city of Cologne.

Science

Demographic transition in urban development and sport

Demographic transition is the current topic of a great number of research and modelling projects. It is also a hot topic in the media and among the public. One of the underlying reasons is the fact that the topic has social relevance to every individual.

Playground Report

Magdeburg – movement on the Elbe

The new playground by the city’s look-out tower was planned with the aim of creating a movement area with transregional significance.

Science

How leisure time wishes could become reality

Good planning is the battle won – Anyone planning today has to know more

Playground Report

Popular meeting place for fitness activities in Bad Windsheim

Intensive use of the new movement area in the spa gardens – Opportunities for people of all ages

Playground Safety

Revised standard DIN 18034 published

Standard DIN 18034 “Playgrounds and outdoor play areas – Requirements for planning, construction and operation” was published in September 2012.

Playground Report

An opportunity for plenty of exercise on the new theme park adventure trail

Attractively themed recreational facilities are particularly popular with families. Obra-Design, an Austrian playground equipment manufacturer, has already completed a string of highly successful projects in this sector. One of the more outstanding examples can be found in the Wild West-inspired ‘Pullman City’ theme park, located in Eging am See in Bavaria.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Football over the rooftops of Berlin

A racy time schedule for realisation of the synthetic turf pitch.

Fitness & Urban Sports

Genuine pull ups

Bonn University Sport invests in fitness training in the open air.

Fitness & Urban Sports

Fitness circuit in the Garden of Health

A highly diverse range of exercise options offering everyone the opportunity to improve their coordination, strength and stamina in line with their own capabilities has been provided in the ‘Garden of Health’ in Zanderstrasse in Bad Nauheim, north of Frankfurt am Main.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Playing fields for everyone – how an old club field was given a new lease of life

In the face of changing sport requirements and a dynamic demographic development, sports associations are coming up against the challenge of having to provide their members with attractive sport and exercise possibilities outside of the classical club repertoire. Especially sports clubs with their own facilities can create opportunities here as the example of the sport and culture communities Botnang in Stuttgart illustrates.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

An explosive project: Modernisation of the Ostpark sports facilities at Frankfurt am Main

The Ostpark is an attractive green park in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, which is very popular due to its vicinity to the city centre. At the centre of the park, which was founded at the beginning of the 20th century, is the so-called Ostparkweiher, a small lake. Grouped around the lake are playing and sunbathing areas, a playground and a sports field.