urbanization

StadtAcker

StadtAcker

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.

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

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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Mayer, Johanna
Mayer, Johanna

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

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Johanna Mayer completed a master’s degree in theoretical and mathematical physics at LMU Munich. She is also a graduate from the Rachel Carson Center’s Environmental Certificate Program. After her master’s program, she has worked on a scientific publication at the chair for statistical and biological physics at LMU Munich. She recently started a new position as an intern for data science and research at the Green-Tech startup Planetly.

Pichl, Carolin
Pichl, Carolin

Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany

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Carolin Pichl is currently completing the Rachel Carson Center´s Environmental Studies Certificate Program. She has already finished her master’s degree in management at TUM and holds a bachelor‘s degree in sports science from TUM. Her master thesis focused on the consequences of being perceived as a socially committed person in the application process.

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Exhibition Overview
About the Exhibition
Ismaning Reservoir
Werksviertel-Mitte
The Belly of the City
Munich Airport
Feldkirchner Tangente
StadtAcker
Through the Eyes of Children
Beyond the Exhibition
Ecopolis Catalog
Further Reading

Werksviertel-Mitte

Werksviertel-Mitte

Werksviertel-Mitte: A Showcase for Nature in the Ostbahnhof Neighborhood? In the Werksviertel the urban future of Munich is being reinvented. The development of the former industrial district is based on a social vision: inclusion and bringing together diverse elements. The Werksviertel has a rich history, and the plans for the future are ambitious. Is it possible to find a successful balance between past and future, between city and nature?

Ecopolis München 2019: Environmental Stories of Discovery

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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Held, Helena
Held, Helena

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

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Helena Held studies visual anthropology at LMU Munich and is always interested in the interface between anthropology and art. Therefore she presented her outcome of the research of her bachelor thesis in an exhibition. She made a film together with some fellow students about the wool production on the Shetland Islands and presented a short film at the Venice Bienniale. She studied at the Venice International University (VIU) and the University of Oslo (UiO), where she visited transdisciplinary courses and worked on environmental topics like food studies and ecofeminism.

Klünder, Vera
Klünder, Vera

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU), Germany

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Vera Klünder studies public health at LMU Munich.

Reitz, Talitta
Reitz, Talitta

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

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Talitta Reitz is a graduate landscape architect and urbanist, and a certified heritage conservationist from University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Originally from Brazil, she has a background in architecture and urbanism from Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, where she worked for architecture offices and local and federal institutions for heritage conservation. In 2016, she was the recipient of the ASLA “Student Design Merit Award,” and of the Tau Sigma Delta Honor Society in Architecture and Allied Arts “Design Excellence” Medal. Currently, she is an early stage researcher of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie RECOMS Innovative Training Network and a PhD candidate of environmental humanities at the Rachel Carson Center at LMU Munich.

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Exhibition Overview
About the Exhibition
Ismaning Reservoir
Werksviertel-Mitte
The Belly of the City
Munich Airport
Feldkirchner Tangente
StadtAcker
Through the Eyes of Children
Beyond the Exhibition
Ecopolis Catalog
Further Reading

Suburbanization

Suburbanization

This is Chapter 12 of the virtual exhibition “Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad” by environmental historian Eric D. Olmanson. The chapter focuses on the role of passenger rail for the process of suburbanization.

Promotion and Transformation of Landscapes along the CB&Q Railroad

This virtual exhibition shows some of the many ways railroads reshaped landscapes of the American West between 1847 and 1965.

This version 2, published in 2020, includes minor updates to the original 2011 virtual exhibition (view PDF here) and applies the Environment & Society Portal’s responsive layout.

Eric Olmanson

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Olmanson, Eric
Olmanson, Eric

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

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Eric Olmanson studied geography and environmental history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After completing his PhD in 2000 he served as an institutional historian until 2008. Since then he has been a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has worked on various research and writing projects. His first book, The Future City on the Inland Sea: A History of Imaginative Geographies of Lake Superior, was published by Ohio University Press in 2007. It won the Great Lakes American Studies Association and Ohio University Press book award and was awarded the J. B. Jackson Prize by the Association of American Geographers. He is currently writing a book about the American Medical Center for Burma, 1945–1965.

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Exhibition Overview
About the Exhibition
Introduction
Railroad Time
US Land Grants
Settlement Promotion
CB&Q and Buffalo Bill
The Pacific Northwest
Western Tourism
Scenic Route Guides
Burlington Vista Domes
Dude Ranches
Overland Excursions
The National Park Line
Suburbanization
Modern Transport
Further Reading

A Walk Through the Ruins (India)

A Walk Through the Ruins (India)

In this chapter from the virtual exhibition “Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey,” Vikas Lakhani’s 360° video takes the viewer on a walk through the villages of Vondh and Adhoi, in the Kutch region of Gujarat that was devastated by a 7.7 Mw earthquake on 26 January 2001. It explores the traditional housing the meaning of development in the region where the ruins of these villages stand as memorials and symbols of failed government relocation policies.

Global Environments: A 360º Visual Journey

Communicating global environmental issues in new and exciting ways can lead to a better public understanding of academic research. The international doctoral researchers of the ENHANCE Innovative Training Network (ITN) present their interdisciplinary projects through short, immersive videos, accompanied by analytical contextualization. These six 360º videos and one multiple-screen video triptych, shot in different countries and ecosystems, aim to bring people closer to an in situ experience of global environments, their complexities, and our relationship to them.

ENHANCE ITN

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Doctoral researchers, ENHANCE ITN
Doctoral researchers, ENHANCE ITN

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The international doctoral researchers of the ENHANCE Innovative Training Network (ITN) are funded by the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, and spread across four leading academic institutions: the Deutsches Museum, the Rachel Carson Center, KTH Stockholm, and the University of Leeds

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Exhibition Overview
About the Exhibition
Agroecology as a Way of Life (Brazil)
Salt Symbiosis on the Black Sea (Bulgaria)
Dreaming the Designer Climate (Iceland)
Building Cinque Terre: A Grapevine Viewpoint (Italy)
A Walk Through the Ruins (India)
Nourish: A 360° Video Poem (Baltic Sea)
Protecting Wild Spaces and Species (Sweden)
The Environment & Society Portal is a project of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, an institute founded in 2009 as a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Read more about the Portal in English and in German.