HafenCity Hamburg and the International Building Exhibition Hamburg – projects of sustainable urban

Beschreibung: This study investigates in which sense and to which extent these projects include sustainable development factors, and if therefore Hamburg fulfills its self-set goal to act as a model for other European metropolitan areas to realize high-level sustainable urban development. In order to define the quality of sustainability implied by the HafenCity and the IBA, the general approach of urban sustainability in terms of its adaptation and evaluation is discussed beforehand.