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Articles in issue 2015 - 5

Playground Report

Aventura – The Play Mountain

It has a shaky start at the foot of the Bromberg (old stone quarry). A large entrance net leads into a treehouse-like tower – and that’s just the beginning, the beginning of what is probably Europe’s longest public space climbing facility. At 168 m long, a succession of wildly different tunnels and bridges, balance play elements and rubber mats snake their way through various towers towards the top of the mountain.

Events

FSB 2015: Greater focus on municipalities

FSB is a meeting point for municipal decision-makers, urban planners and landscape architects /Many solutions for amenity areas, public pool and sports facilities

Playground Report

Playground above the rooftops of Hamburg

Adults and children in the Fröbel nursery "Im Wandsbeker Quarree" were delighted with the finished rooftop playground: Space to play, run riot, climb, balance and discover. Plane-spotting or looking at the shapes of the clouds is just as much fun for children – like spending the morning break in the open air.

Playground Report

The long-wave line in view

Lively garden show in Mühlacker. Playground passes its first test.

Municipalities and Associations

The exercise-friendly town

Regular sport helps stave off illnesses, promotes individual wellbeing, helps relieve stress, improves attitude towards life and quality of life. Public exercise areas are the foundation of being able to provide citizens with accessible and free exercise options locally. Uwe Lübking from the German Association of Towns and Municipalities (DStGB) discusses the subject in this interview.

Playground Report

Monuments Square Berlin – the playground

The Monuments Square forms an attractive passageway from the city area to the green network of paths that make up the Schöneberger loop. The new city square is situated right next to the locomotive depot of the Deutsches Technikmuseum (German Museum of Technology) and fits in, taking into account the historical role it once played as part of the railway network.

Playground Report

Play and sport in Sotchi Olympic Park

Thoughts on the future viability of children's playgrounds

Playground Safety

Much ado about nothing – Noise emissions from biking and skate parks

Notes on the application of VDI guideline 3770

Municipalities and Associations

Community sport policies– current challenges and problems

In many places, sport policy does not have a particularly good reputation. Instead of creating sensible sporting infrastructure and optimally promoting sport, it is often said that focus in many regions is limited to administration of sports facilities and defence of perpetually limited funds.

Science

Physical activity plays a significant role in brain development

The health benefits of physical activity have long been known and are also now widely recognised. Yet increases in sedentary lifestyles mean we are becoming less and less active across the lifespan.

Playground Safety

Aspects of fall protection surfacing

One of the most important factors when constructing a new playground is to ensure that the correct surfacing is used. The first thing is to make sure that the fall protection surfacing does what it is meant to do and thus conforms to the requirements of the German version of standard EN 1176 part 1.

Coverstory

Sport in the open air: Fitness and exercise trail in Cologne green belt

Play and sport outdoors, fitness and multi-generational exercise are becoming increasingly more important. The leisure time value of public green areas is rising and demand is growing. Cologne has recognised this.

Playground Safety

Keep play areas legally sustainable

In recent decades there have been ongoing discussions regarding the planning of play areas – But all of the resultant developments neglected to address one particular aspect of play area planning for a long time: The correct assessment of play areas in development plans.

Sports & Leisure Facilities

"Sports clubs – ideal partners for outdoor sport and exercise facilities?"

First a quick review: For more than 45 years, the mascot 'TRIMMY' has represented exercise. At that time, at the start of the 1970s, the German sports association (Deutsche Sportbund, DSB), the predecessor of today's German Olympic Sports Confederation (Deutschen Olympischen Sportbundes, DOSB)...

Planning, Designing, Building

The school playground in the neighbourhood – a place for all generations?

School playgrounds are important places for exercising and meeting up for children and teenagers – ideally outside school hours, too. But what role does the school playground play as a place of exercise for all generations?

Planning, Designing, Building

To play is to live

Imagine a city where work is done from the vision, that life should be all about playing – not only for children and young people but also for adults and elderly.