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Articles in issue 2016 - 3

Parks & Leisure Facilities

Fun forest in the city

She puts her foot on the knot that is tied to the post, gets ready and climbs off into the maze of blue posts with knots.
Her backpack is on the rubber hill, she was actually on her way home from work...

Playground Report

Back on the rails again!

'Schnaufi' is the name borne by a steam locomotive constructed over 100 years ago that found a home in the Engelsberger Hof playground in Solingen in 1971. This former Puffing Billy has since provided generations of children...

Science

Improved design of outside areas and playgrounds to improve educational promotion

What does the pedagogical-spatial design of the outside area of a nursery school and of playgrounds have in common with the evolution of mankind? The clear response of a scientist is: simply everything!

Parks & Leisure Facilities

Frankfurt’s most relaxing green area

The Hafenpark in the east end of Frankfurt marks the end of the green promenade that stretches along the bank of the Main River, and the start of the green belt. For the city of Frankfurt it represents the people’s park of the 21st century.

Science

The 2016 movement study by Techniker Krankenkasse: about physically active and inactive people

The Federal Republic of Germany is split: half of the population is not practising any sports at all. This is the main conclusion of the 2016 study: "Get moving, Germany!" presented by Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) in Berlin.

Parks & Leisure Facilities

A climbing tower for Öhringen

This year the State Garden Show takes place in Öhringen. In addition to numerous events the show got one special attraction. On April 13th, the...

Parks & Leisure Facilities

Climbing in the shadows of the blast furnaces

The Landscape Park Duisburg-Nord in Meiderich and its fixtures has become a unique, fascinating leisure-time adventure space for young and old. All that remained when the industrial works were closed down in...

Playground Report

Park with motor skills exercise trail

Following a two-year construction phase, the Europa playground in the 'Park am Buschkrug' in Berlin was opened by district mayor Franziska Giffey and Thomas Blesing of the local building authority. Around the periphery of this green space runs a motor skills exercise trail.

Parks & Leisure Facilities

A landscape park as sports park

The venue with its play and skateboard facilities in Bremen's Überseepark is an Eldorado for young people seeking exercise.

Coverstory

From sport to sportivity: the right to exercise

In future, the priority won't be to break records but to develop a new day-to-day lifestyle - the new buzzword in this context is 'sportivity'. A survey undertaken by German's trend research body the Zukunftsinstitut provides insight into what the future will be like.

Events

"Bewegungsplan" Plenum 2016 – Great interest in "moving" urban development

On April 12th and 13th 2016, the trade journal Playground@Landscape organised the fourth "Bewegungsplan" (movement plan) Plenum in Fulda, Germany. More than 180 participants from cities and communities, landscape architecture...

Fitness & Urban Sports

Local sport group and local authority collaborate on fitness trail

Cottbus is a town in Germany located on the River Spree to the south west of Berlin. It already possessed a much frequented jogging track that runs along the bank of the river. With the...

Fitness & Urban Sports

A basic right to exercise?

"From sport to sportivity" is a trend identified in a survey undertaken by the German future research institute 'zukunfts|institut' (source: "Sportivity, Die Zukunft des Sports - Zukunftsinstitut GmbH, May 2014; p.8). The institute claims in its report: "In future...

Fitness & Urban Sports

Calisthenics Parks – The renaissance of chin-up bars

Some of us will remember the "fitness trails" created in the 1970s. Based on the so-called "keep fit" action, communities installed outdoor fitness studios open to the general public and located at the edge of town, in local recreation areas or city parks and woods.