The Rhine-Ruhr area from Bonn to Münster in Germany, long the home of steelmakers, chemical producers and other industrial firms, is adding Circular Valley to its nomenclature, a project being ...
A hill emerges incongruously from the table-flat landscape east of the Rhine River near Bottrop, Germany. I climb a wide graded path through young birch and cherry trees. The fledgling forest finally ...
In March, I traveled to Germany’s Ruhr Valley (Ruhrgebiet) as a teaching assistant for an urban planning studio at Columbia University. The purpose of the studio was to look at a small site in the ...
Germany’s Ruhr Valley region, the 2010 Capital of European Culture, shut down a stretch of one of the continent’s busiest motorways. See what took place when the vehicles stayed at home Germany's Ruhr ...
In books, paintings and plays of social protest, the Ruhr Valley was long pictured as a brutally black furnace of heavy industry, as ugly as the coalpits on which it is built. It has also been ...