How do you build a strong neighborhood?

Several people are standing around a table, reviewing the functional plan for the neighborhoods near Volkspark.

A delegation from Science City Hamburg Bahrenfeld Science Cities in Sweden and Denmark

Science City Dialogues: Status of Planning for the Neighborhoods Around Volkspark

Photo: Miguel Ferraz
Photo: Miguel Ferraz

Science City Dialogues: Progress report on the neighborhoods near Volkspark presented on April 8, 2026

Documentation of the competitive dialog for the Volkspark districts now online

Cover page of the brochure on the competitive dialog for the Volkspark districts

The documentation provides an insight into the competitive dialog for the Volkspark districts The competitive dialog for the Volkspark districts was launched in autumn 2023. Six international planning teams took part and developed ideas for the urban and open space design as well as the distribution of uses in the Volkspark neighborhoods. The competition was subject to intensive public...

Dialog to the Innovationspark Altona

Presentation Innovationspark with spectators
Photo: büro luchterhandt

Dialogue on the functional plan In the immediate vicinity of DESY-Kernareal and Campus West , Innovationspark Altona offers space for companies that benefit from the unique combination of research, teaching and innovation. In order to unite the diverse requirements and visions for the area, a functional plan is being developed as an urban development specification. In 2024, the HIE Hamburg Invest Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH invited...

"What can we look forward to?"

In a large room, several people stand in front of a screen with a welcome message for the competitive dialog.
Event on the winning design in the Quartiere competition dialog at Volkspark on 19.09.2024

Dialogue and exhibition on the winning design for the districts at Volkspark opened Around 150 interested parties made their way to the central lost and found office at Luruper Chaussee on 19.09.2024 to get a first-hand impression of the future design of the districts at Volkspark . Around 3,800 new apartments are to be built in the quarters at Volkspark as well as...

Public Science City workshops

People stand around a card and exchange ideas. Notes are stuck on the card.

Between August 28 and September 2, 2021, three public Science City workshops on the topics of 'Science City of Neighborhoods', 'Knowledge, Work, Life' and 'Reaching and Networking' took place on site at the Bahrenfeld trotting track. In the workshops, citizens were able to gather information and contribute their ideas and visions for the development of Science City, in particular for the 'neighborhoods at Volkspark'. In addition to keynote speeches by experts from the authorities and science...

Urban development and open space decided for "Quartiere am Volkspark"

Visualization: Quarters at Volkspark. Students on the campus of the University of Hamburg.
Living in the "Garden City" as part of the neighborhoods at Volkspark"

The Danish office Cobe, Copenhagen, wins the competition for the urban and open space design.

Neighborhoods information event on Volkspark

A man gives a presentation to a group of listeners in a conference room.

Lively discussion Planning teams and jury members gave an up-to-date insight into the "Quartiere am Volkspark"

With the Infomobile to the citizens

Two men with T-shirts from the

Science City on Tour Test run for a mobile information service by bike met with lively demand: three weeks, 15 stops at ten different locations and more than 250 discussions

Information event "Quarters at Volkspark"

A woman gives a presentation at a discussion on the Hamburg housing market
Discussion on the Hamburg housing market with the board members of BFW Nord, Sönke Struck and Kay Brahmst. Discussion on the Hamburg housing market with the board members of BFW Nord, Sönke Struck and Kay Brahmst. Science City Bahrenfeld, interim presentation of the urban planning designs at Infocenter of Science City Bahrenfeld.

Since October 2023, various planning teams have been developing ideas for urban development, open spaces and the distribution of uses in the "Quarters at Volkspark"

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