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?
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?
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.
This exhibition tells the story of Mabel “MB” Williams, an extraordinary, ordinary woman who became devoted to national parks and engendered that devotion in others. Historian Alan MacEachern documents her role in shaping the philosophy of Canada’s Dominion Parks Branch (the precursor to Parks Canada) in the early- to mid-twentieth century. Digitized photographs and letters from Williams’s life, her guidebooks and other publications, and audio interviews with Williams herself reveal her influence on, and love for, Canada’s national parks.