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Tempelhof Park & NYC at same scale

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This is a slog – a slow blog with longer more thoughtful posts and without clickbait – on environmental and public space topics on which little to nothing has ever been written in English, with digressions into design and architecture. Mostly it’s about interesting things in Germany, where I live. I work on urban ecosystems, water and climate and have a Ph.D. in urban forest ecology. You can find more about me here and I have a completely separate blog where I post my photos of travels, design and art, and there too, most of them depict things that you can’t see anywhere else online.

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No, climate change didn’t “cause 242 deaths” in Europe’s floods
In Berlin the toilets flush directly into the river (but it’s not just Berlin)
Everything you always wanted to know about green infrastructure but were afraid to ask
High modernism at the coal mine
Everything you always wanted to know about degrowth but were afraid to ask
The tree that smells like cake
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“Usage Conflicts”: Berlin debates whether it has enough space to adapt to climate change
De-paving with Operation Stonebreak
Mythbusting the weather: Berlin’s rainy reputation belies a grave lack of water
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Cars 1, Democracy 0: “A new low for city planning in Berlin” says former commissioner as People’s Forum gives way to car traffic
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The City Museum – Gaudí in a scrapyard of the imagination
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A rare heath ecosystem just outside Berlin

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