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Articles in issue 2015 - 3

Events

Bewegungsplan Plenum 2015 – Great interest in future perspectives for public leisure areas and playgrounds

On April 28 and 29, 2015, publishers Playground + Landscape were able to welcome more than 120 participants to the third exercise plan plenum held at the Maritim Hotel, Schlossgarten, Fulda in Germany. Their objective was to discuss the future perspectives for public leisure areas and playgrounds.

Playground Report

It is normal to be different

Creation of a playground which promotes the individual development of different children.

Playground Report

Young people and exercise – an urban play world in Maggie Daley Park in Chicago

In the very heart of Chicago, overlooked by the downtown skyscrapers, a generously proportioned recreational facility has been created on a 20-acre site named Maggie Daley Park. Since its completion in late 2014, the park has become a distinctive feature of the city and has proved...

Playground Report

Inclusion at the playground ‒ A thrilling challenge

There's nothing Robin loves better than playing on a swing. But he cannot manage to get onto a normal swing in a normal playground. That's because the bright and bubbly seven-year-old is wheelchair-bound owing to a mobility impairment...

Science

Barrier-free planning and building for public transport and open spaces DIN 18040-3

The publication of DIN 18040-3 for public transport and open spaces in December 2014 completed the DIN 18040 series of standards.

Playground Report

The 'Lizardland' adventure playground in Rathenow

A gigantic lizard, partly buried in the old Kiekeberg quarry, a 32-metre slide that leads to a 'clutch of eggs' with water playground, 'skin scales' that serve as climbing pedestals on a south-facing slope - all discreetly integrated in the natural surroundings and supplemented by a picnic site...

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Lush green with a pleasant look and feel

Compared with natural grass, modern synthetic turf systems distinguish themselves in part due to their cost-effectiveness. Durable and easy to clean, they can be played on all year round. In order to further improve their appearance, feel and wear ...

Playground Report

The Inclusive Playground – A Rewarding Challenge

Many people read these words thinking of a child in a wheelchair. It immediately follows that a playground surrounded by sand, with many high edges and without ramps, is simply inaccessible to such a child –and if suitable play...

Coverstory

Inclusion in public playgrounds

What exactly do we mean by inclusion? Plenty of people have heard the word. What is behind it? And what does inclusion mean for each of us personally? And what does it mean for the playground?

Planning, Designing, Building

Barrier-free playgrounds and open spaces for play

All children have the right to play in particular in open spaces. The new DIN 18034 (09.2012) Playgrounds and Open Spaces for Play has specified this explicitly for all public facilities.
Consequently the much-discussed topic of inclusion, in other words the definite...

Sports & Leisure Facilities

High-Tech Synthetic Turf for the TuS Frammersbach

The German company, Trofil Sportbodensysteme GmbH & Co. KG, was recently able to finalise a project of a very special kind for the German first league football club TuS Frammersbach in the Franconia Region. Around 7,000 square metres of synthetic turf ...

Sports & Leisure Facilities

Financing sport facility construction – make use of all possibilities!

The problems are well known by many communities and sport clubs: Existing sports facilities are out-dated and require renovation work while the state coffers have no funds available. How can construction of new facilities or renovation of the old ones still be possible? There are various possibilities for financing this kind of project...