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Money can’t guarantee beauty
An interview with Alain de Botton, author and philosopher
22
World in figures
Global metropolises yesterday, today and tomorrow
24
Watch out for pedestrians!
A stroll through Leipzig with the freelance “promenadologist”
Bertram Weisshaar
30
What is your view on architecture?
Views of Kazuyo Sejima and Alain Robert
34
What comes before the city?
Nothing works without the right infrastructure
40
Materials that dreams are made of
Innovative materials help turn visions into reality
74
A new start in America
ThyssenKrupp opens two new production sites in Brazil and
the U.S. in 2010
46
From waste land to the new campus
A brief visual history of the construction project
48
“Movement and renewal”
An interview about the new ThyssenKrupp Quarter with Ralph
Labonte, member of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp AG
55
Room of Tranquility
A retreat from the hectic of everyday work
56
The doers
Three men and their reflections on the construction project
58
Building on one’s own strengths
Some of the Group’s most innovative products have been used to
build the Quarter
60
A “green stage”
The ThyssenKrupp Quarter has been awarded a renowned
sustainable building seal
62
The city within the city
Company history has been written on the site of the new
ThyssenKrupp Quarter since 1818
76
Megacities and shrinking cities
How can space, traffic, energy and the quality of living conditions
be safeguarded and improved in growing and shrinking cities?
80
How kids see their surroundings
Students from an Essen high school took snapshots of their
environment
84
Getting around in 2050
New forms of mobility in the city of the future
90
Real and virtual spaces
Why the desire for real encounter remains – an essay
92
Augmented Reality
New technologies alter our perception of our environment
96
Fascinating buildings
An interview with entomologist Bert Hölldobler
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