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Munich Airport | Ecopolis München 2019
Munich airport: Economy instead of ecology? The Munich airport wants to be green. But it used to be much greener here. How high is the price for humans and nature?
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StadtAcker | Ecopolis München 2019
StadtAcker: Munich’s most valuable oasis? An example of how the dream of an urban garden can become a reality is the StadtAcker. Assisted by the city administration, citizens created a green oasis.
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Former Railway Embankment Feldkirchner Tangente | Ecopolis München 2019
Former railway embankment Feldkirchner Tangente—Munich’s “Wild East”? For a short time, this bypass route was used by trains. For a long time, endangered fauna move about undisturbed across the former embankment, rare plants establish themselves, and local people go here for recreation and relaxation.
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Beyond the Exhibition | Ecopolis München 2019
Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?
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Further Reading | Ecopolis München 2019
Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery is an exhibition on Munich’s environmental histories. It showcases the final projects of students in the Environmental Studies Certificate Program of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. The stories told in this exhibition ask: to whom does the urban world belong and what do we want the urban environment of the future to look like?
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Through the Eyes of Children | Ecopolis München 2019
The physical Ecopolis München 2019 exhibition also included a station for younger visitors. Every station was told as a story for children. After an adult reads the stories to the children, they could draw their impressions on paper at a nearby table. This station was created by Isabelle Hermannstädter.
Perspectives Article
Compressed Cosmopolitanization
In her personal essay “Compressed Cosmopolitanization,” Stefania Gallini’s recounts her feelings of dissonance of joining a reading group focused on risk and Ulrich Beck’s work at the safety of Munich, while coming from the megalopolis of Bogotá, where risk is a daily reality.