those Who leave the capital by train or car, it can also recognize 30 years after the fall of the wall in many places, where once the inner-German border ran. Here, the built-up Berlin, where the forests and lakes of Brandenburg. But that’s changing with a high pace. Germany’s metropolis is powerful under pressure, forcing them into the surrounding regions. And attracts on the other hand, every day tens of thousands of people from the surrounding areas, the work in Berlin, studying or shopping.
this process plan? Looking at the megacities of the world, can be one of the courage to leave. Demographic developments and economic interests are elemental forces, to restrain ex-officio heavy. There seems to be, what beggar king Peachum sings in the “three penny Opera”: “Yes, make a Plan, just a large light, and then do a second Plan, to go you can’t do both.” But maybe there is another way. On Tuesday, the state governments of Berlin and Brandenburg will bring together the “land development plan for the capital region” on the way. This is better than nothing.
It comes in the new, great Plan, almost everything is for the development and living conditions in both provinces are important: Housing and transport, commercial, retail and basic services, protection of open space and the climate. After the Failure of the fusion in a referendum, that was in may of 1996, both neighbors, fortunately, not completely drift apart. At that time, a joint planning authority was established and a set of rules established to organize the spaces between the Uckermark and Lausitz, Havel country and the Oder-Spree. And right in the middle of Berlin.
not for the conflict-averse
This land-use planning is unique in Germany, but not for the conflict-averse contemporaries. While the chambers of industry and Commerce in Berlin and Potsdam by a “Greater Berlin” dream of the Brandenburg CDU-Chef Ingo in question Senftleben now, the new plan completely. This is not only the forthcoming election campaign in the state of Brandenburg is owed, but the mood in those municipalities meeting the suspended and slowed down feel of a plan of work, under the suspicion of being too much on the needs and problems of the capital turned off.
Not only in rural areas, in which half of the Brandenburg lives, outweighs the criticism. Even small cities that lie outside of the plan for the expanded settlement of Saxony and around Berlin, to feel sorted out. Who can not benefit directly from cross-border growth of the metropolis, wants to but connections, at least, security of supply, viable public transport and jobs. In the two and a half years of discussion on the new land development plan have contributed in Brandenburg, thousands of citizens and associations, counties and municipalities, while in Berlin the public interest against zero went. The shows who makes the most.
the Berlin-based have big problems. They need homes, not build them their own government fast enough. More and more major city-dwellers escape to the surrounding countryside, meanwhile, on the ring road. And also you fret about missing or clogged regional connections by Rail and road. All of this leads to the legitimate question of whether the new land development plan is coming much too late, and the harsh reality has long since been obtained.
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But what would be the Alternative? Not A Plan? Given what we know about wild cities, you should not keep in mind in the first place. And the main is recommended to townspeople, to read your Fontane, and more on the love neighbors. Because everyone in Berlin is basically Brandenburg.
