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Landscape designers plan Kita (child care facility) playground
Their central targets are the construction of playgrounds for the under 3's, and improved training and quality of the carers.
Promoting development outdoors - the Steilshooper Allee day care centre in Hamburg
Landscape architects design development opportunities for children.
How child-friendly is Europe?
Slowly but surely, there has been a decrease in the birth rate in Europe.
TSG-GuFiT: Realisation of a Vision
15 years ago we dreamed – we that is six to eight "young madcaps"
More in the community funds?
The NRW local authorities are to receive circa € 8.7 billion from the state coffers in 2013.
Themed playgrounds in Vienna: Planning is everything
When playgrounds are being planned, renovated and redesigned, the users (young people, children) are integrated in the planning process by means of participation projects, so that their interests can be taken into consideration and included.
27.02.2013 - Structural change in sport
Usually, however, the main focus of attention is the over-ageing of society. How should the younger generations carry the weight of the older ones? How can the health system help shoulder this burden?
27.02.2013 - Rainbow strip in Helene Deutsch Park
In a hidden little park in Vienna, colourful module furniture is at once a key element and a space divider, furniture and play equipment.
27.02.2013 - Themed playgrounds in Vienna: Planning is everything
When playgrounds are being planned, renovated and redesigned, the users (young people, children) are integrated in the planning process by means of participation projects, so that their interests can be taken into consideration and included.
04.12.2012 - Euro Attractions Show 2012 a Big Success
The three-day event is owned and produced by the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA).
“The first time that I thought, ‘We have to change something here’ was in 2008 when the German player Miroslav Klose broke his nose after sliding into the ground frame of the goal. He was not the only one to suffer personally because of this injury, but his whole team was at a disadvantage as the player missed several games.
04.12.2012 - Sawn up and sprayed
We define vandalism as destructive fury or the strong desire to destroy. “We encounter modern vandalism in the form of shattered shop windows, slashed underground seats, punctured car tyres, torn-out phone cables or as graffiti.
04.12.2012 - Adventure playground at Phoenix-See city lake
At today‘s Phoenix-See city lake in Dortmund where once stood the former steel works, Phoenix Ost, an area measuring 94 hectares – the re-natured river Emscher is now flowing again and you will find a lake measuring 24 hectares. Housing developments have been being built around the lake since 2011.
04.12.2012 - Housing association invests in playground
The technical managing director of the Stuttgart Wohnungs- und Städtebaugesellschaft (SWSG) [Living and Urban Development Association], Helmuth Caesar, is firmly convinced that: “The island settlement should become a more attractive place for families with children. To this end, it needs a playground with wonderful playground equipment.”
04.12.2012 - Play and communication areas for different requirements
A new, customised playground has arisen from an existing playground and separate football field including a former commercial area: The Schinkestrasse - Maybachufer playground, Berlin Neukölln.
18.10.2012 - GaLaBau is still the sector’s leading trade fair – but … !?
But: are there signs that GaLaBau’s importance to the German market is on the wane? Why are some of the top manufacturers staying away? How can the site be further improved?
18.10.2012 - Better than its reputation – A plea for dirt
These dirt pitches should be treated with more acceptance - not least in the face of increasingly limited community finances – as they have a rightful place in existence and under given circumstances, are a sensible alternative.
18.10.2012 - Child’s play makes you clever
They need to be exercise spaces that provide for free and unlimited physical activities and a wide range of play and game options. This is the conclusion of Prof. Dr. Renate Zimmer, who claims that “child’s play makes you clever”.
18.10.2012 - Hamburg society builds playgrounds in crisis areas
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the French oceanographer, once said that “playing is one activity that can’t be taken seriously enough.” The work of the voluntary society alma terra is based upon the same principles. The name of the society translates as ‘bountiful earth’.
17.10.2012 - School playgrounds – schoolyards as public playgrounds
Where can children play in a densely populated town these days anyway?
School playgrounds are generally the only resources that can even be considered as public play areas. The grounds that would be used for play areas – if at all – are expensive and hard to come by, yet there are already alternatives available, which are completely free.
17.10.2012 - Design opens up countless possibilities
1. Playground@Landscape: In English and French design means "creation" or "conception", whereas the Italian disegno (English: drawing, sculpture) has the stronger meaning of a process to be tested, like the Spanish diseño.
The objective of the event was to provide in-depth answers to discussion topics such as: "Which construction methods are most suitable for which uses? How are fibres, plastics and granules manufactured and what is their influence on use? It is always very interesting to hear about innovations in the trade based on examples and presentations.
08.08.2012 - The blossoming of London’s potholes
‘Pothole gardening’, one form of guerrilla gardening, first took root in Oxford. It was Pete Dungey who here first came up with the idea of using potholes as tiny guerrilla gardens both as a protest against the appalling state of Britain’s roads and to subvert familiar perceptions of what a street should look like. “If we were to fill every pothole in Britain with plants, our roads would be an absolute sea of blooms”, claims Dungey, who works as a typographic designer. The condition of London’s roads is no better. The video producer, social media specialist and serial blogger Steve Wheen thus adopted Dungey’s concept and has been working hard at filling London’s potholes with his own unique horticultural-based creations.
08.08.2012 - Give teenagers (green) play areas
This was a success with the outdoor space at Michaelshof in Hepsisau www.mh-zh.de close to Weilheim/unter Teck. The company KuKuk (in German: Kunst Kultur Konzeption (meaning Art Culture Conception)) from Stuttgart was responsible for the planning and implementation of the outdoor space. Starting with the initial discussion with those responsible for the provision of educational aids and a planning workshop with 19 school pupils from grades 7 and 8 to a five-day project week, the ideas and wishes of teenagers were taken seriously and these teenagers were given the right to voice their own opinions and were able to help out with the construction themselves.
08.08.2012 - Green oasis and private paradise
Playground@Landscape: Turnover of the GaLaBau in 2011 has increased by nearly 500 million Euros. You have taken over the position from Hanns-Jürgen Redeker at a point when the association is doing well. What would you like to improve, change, initiate?
BGL-President August Forster: At the moment a positive general feeling exists throughout the whole "green" sector, which is very pleasing. The association for garden, landscape and sport facility construction (BGL) intends to make use of this mood in order to further develop the trade.
08.08.2012 - GaLaBau trade fair continues to expand
Even larger, even more attractive – this is how GaLaBau, Europe’s leading trade fair for the development and design of gardens, landscapes, sports fields, and playgrounds, is presenting itself in its anniversary year. GaLaBau will take place for the 20th time already from 12 to 15 September 2012. The two subsidiary exhibitions, the PLAYGROUND and Deutsche Golfplatztage (German Golf Course Days) expert sections, have also been prettified and will offer new programme points. More than 1,100 exhibitors and 60,000 specialist visitors are expected to attend the triplet fairs GaLaBau, PLAYGROUND and Deutsche Golfplatztage.
12.06.2012 - Sport facility or independent exercising location?
Intergenerational fitness or trim trails are currently a topic of much general interest in the media, at conferences and in public meetings in order to allow the public at large, decision-makers and planners to form their own opinions.
12.06.2012 - When committed citizens make it happen
"The volunteers have done outstanding work in maintaining the park." says Kimberly Baker, a member of the current “Friends of Pineview Park" association.
Euro Attractions Show (EAS) 2012 – Europe’s largest conference and trade show for the €8.6 billion leisure and attractions industry.
12.06.2012 - Playground with soul
Child-oriented, close to nature, generation-spanning.
12.06.2012 - Community constable significantly reduces anti-social behaviour through play projects
The MUGA was officially opened on 3 April by PC Banks and Yvette Cooper MP as the second phase of the Knottingley Community Partnership Project.
16.04.2012 - Why not encourage the various generations to play together?
Everywhere in the German-speaking world, the accepted policy for several years has been to promote the construction of so-called multigenerational parks. There is now a multiplicity of relevant suppliers and a wide range of exercise equipment designed for the needs of young adults, the middle-aged and especially for adults over the age of 50 years.
16.04.2012 - Commentary on the standard DIN SPEC (pre-standard) 18035-7 "Artificial turf areas"
In October 2011, the German standards institute (Deutsche Institut für Normung, DIN) published the document DIN SPEC (pre-standard) 18035-7, "Artificial turf areas" and designated it the successor to DIN V 18035-7:2002.
16.04.2012 - Not "cheap" but "inexpensive"
"The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it can't be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you will have enough to pay for something better."
12.03.2012 - A piece of Africa in Dresden
A new giraffe and zebra enclosure has been built at Dresden Zoo. The design was chosen to bring across the animals' origins in a playful way
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12.03.2012 - Exercise and mobility in the urban environment 2020
And he keeps a diary in which he records what he encounters when he cycles through large conurbations such as New York, Istanbul and Berlin.
12.03.2012 - Playgrounds need committed volunteers
Many areas of public and social life would hardly exist anymore without volunteers. And without committed volunteers, some playgrounds would no longer be what they once were.
29.02.2012 - Sustainable construction of sports facilities
In reality, however, sustainability is a combination of ecology, economics and sociology and means nothing less than to maintain these components in a regenerable way over a lasting period of time in order to counteract negative changes.
15.12.2011 - Pilot project within the framework of the Hessian sustainability strategy
On 1 June 2011, the Hessian State Government joined forces with the town of Hanau, the regional sports association, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Darmstadt College, as well as RheinMain College, as participating project partners, to open a fitness trail for senior citizens in the Hanau Palace Gardens.
15.12.2011 - New 100% recyclable artificial football pitch for SV Schaffhausen
Swiss club SV Schaffhausen (SVS), have completed the installation of the new Bühlplatz artificial pitch and will deliver real benefits for technically gifted players.
11.10.2011 - Sparkling with a zest for life
On the area of the old Oberlaa Thermal Space centre, the new thermal spring - in addition to high quality spa facilities - will offer about 4,000 m² of water surface, 3,000 m² of sauna areas and a 6,000 m² area of comprehensive health facilities. And a water playground.
Water, heating, electricity - these are all major causes of environmental pollution and so the club examined its financial resources carefully and carried out a seven year trial. The result is now obvious. Expenditure for electricity fuel oil fell drastically. By exercising a great deal of care and entrepreneurial spirit, the club is even creating future income from sales of energy.
17.08.2011 - Koblenz transformed - National Garden Show 2011
Playground@Landscape: Hello Mr. Faas, first question: Is the Koblenz National Garden Show 2011 “working”?
17.08.2011 - Family Flocks at Farley Fox
Plunging slides, an enormous Bird's Nest Swing, a skate ramp and challenging trim trails are just some of the brand new fun features at the Farley Fox Park, which opened last week in Farley, east of Salisbury.
17.08.2011 - “Families on the Move: Parents displace role model function"
. For this purpose, the market research institute iconKIDS&YOUTH, on behalf of peb, questioned a total of 716 mothers of children aged from six to twelve years old. The results of the survey clearly show: The knowledge is certainly there – but implementing it is proving difficult!
17.08.2011 - Meet your new personal trainer
Developed in conjunction with Youth Sport Direct, there are eight different
Training Buddies, each designed to help you perfect a specific exercise technique,
such as tricep dips, sit ups and lunges.
17.08.2011 - Spielplatznet.de – Germany’s largest playground catalogue
But where are the nicest playgrounds in Germany? The website Spielplatznet.de can provide an answer to this question. Spielplatznet.de was created in 2008 and is a collection of playgrounds compiled by users that is free to use.
The aim of this work is to present a practical implementation of comprehensive theoretical knowledge and scientific analyses of health-oriented promotion of physical activity on a local basis. The guidelines shall be made available to municipalities and interested institutions.
20.06.2011 - Basle: Erlenmattpark II – paradise for children
The first stage of the construction of the 58,000 m2-park has now been completed; an area of 33,000 m2 is occupied by newly planted trees and shrubs, a unique playground, a large fountain and a host of sports and play facilities.
20.06.2011 - Saving in the playground?
"Close your theatres, amalgamate register offices or complete towns!" was the provocative suggestion of Jürgen Büssow, the Düsseldorf District President to the hard-up Ruhr District communes in an interview in the daily newspaper WAZ.
The 252 solar modules, made by the company Schott AG, have been in operation feeding electricity into the national network since April 2010.
20.06.2011 - Stuttgart: Lauchäcker "Into the Garden" Playground
Citizen participation in the playground - not only in Stuttgart 21.
20.06.2011 - Dresden: Woodland playground Kleinzschachwitz
Something New on the Eastern Front: The Regional office, associations and the then Green Spaces Office jointly came up with the first ideas for an adventure playground.
20.06.2011 - “Gemma raus!” – Let’s go outside!
Health-promoting hands-on activities for older women and men in fitness parks .
20.06.2011 - The acrobatic art of locomotion in the city
Parkour can be defined as the acrobatic art of locomotion in the urban area of cities. Its obstacles are walls, facades, garages and cars, all of which are to be overcome elegantly and effectively.
20.06.2011 - Mülheim an der Ruhr: A sports jungle
The Hofackerstraße children's playground was designed in September 2008 as part of a "planning workshop" of this type and the results were then presented to the residents, representatives of the parents and to representatives from politics and administration. The children unanimously chose “Sports Jungle" as the motto for the playground.
15.04.2011 - Plain and simple ........ wood?
“We have realised a playground over the past year in the newly built spa and wellness centre “Lido Locarno” in collaboration with the company "Moro & Moro".
15.04.2011 - Bumps yes – cuts no!? The playground expert’s here
Over the last few years many playground operators have become aware of the risks of injury – notably from publicised reports of accidents which have occurred – and have provided corresponding training for those employees responsible for safety monitoring. Despite this, in many cases annual inspections are still tendered for and carried out by so-called “expert playground inspectors”, whose qualifications seem more than dubious. Often, this kind of inspection, carried out by unqualified personnel, leads to drawn-out discussions. But what qualifications are really required for “experts” on playgrounds and playground equipment?
15.04.2011 - More green in public areas
How towns and local authorities can help create positive vibes is something local authority leaders can experience at the Public11 trade fair on 12 and 13 April in the Trade Fair Düsseldorf.
by Karolina Krzastek, FEPI assistant
Children are growing up in a rapidly changing world characterized by higher and tougher standards of learning.
16.02.2011 - An informative IAKS seminar in Göttingen, Germany
IAKS seminar “Synthetic surfaces and turf pitches” was a great success.
16.02.2011 - Cost-benefit comparison natural grass – synthetic turf
By Eric Hardman, Head of Sports facilities, Sports and Education Department, City of Basel, Switzerland
For the second time in the past year, the Federal Horticultural Show Koblenz 2011 has come within an inch of flooding.
16.02.2011 - Qualification for playground inspectors
by Bertold Tempel, TÜV Rheinland LGA Products GmbH
Have we learned from the past?
16.02.2011 - The trend towards rope
Rope play equipment and space nets create movement for a lively playground. A trend in the trade for playground equipment and recreational facilities.
15.02.2011 - Griesheim – the first playable town in Germany
Children have retreated from public space as they have fewer and fewer opportunities for outdoor play. Children have gradually been deprived of their liberty without conviction.
15.02.2011 - The desert lives – in Munich‘s “Theresienhöhe” district
It is a place with strong characteristics. Since June 2010 the new leisure area at Theresienhöhe in Munich’s Schwanthalerhöhe district has been inviting children, teenagers and adults to play and have fun.
15.02.2011 - Exercise is not just exercise
by Dr. Dieter Breithecker, Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Haltungs- und Bewegungsförderung e. V. (Federal Association for the Development of Posture and Exercise)
15.02.2011 - Is there a trend towards rope play equipment?
There are hardly any manufacturers any more who dare to enter the market without offering rope elements. Some even take things one step further by offering not just “play equipment with ropes” but real “rope play equipment”, i.e. such equipment with which the rope is the essential or even only play element. In particular the three-dimensional net structures, as they are called, have to be mentioned.
03.01.2011 - Berliner Seilfabrik goes USA
The Berliner Seilfabrik Company, which originates from a factory for the manufacture of elevator ropes founded in Berlin, Germany in 1865, has now opened a new subsidiary in the USA at Greenville, South Carolina and has further strengthened its position in the American market.
03.01.2011 - Garden festivals give you the edge
Hanover: Expert workshop in a bid to make the future development of garden festivals a success for Lower Saxony’s local authorities.
28.12.2010 - The Commission for Observing Children’s Needs
An interview with Eckhard Pols, President of the Children’s Commission in the German Bundestag.
28.12.2010 - The family-friendly sports field – a flash in the pan or evergreen?
by Dipl.- Sportwiss. Maren Reyer, Institut für Kooperative Planung und Sportentwicklung GbR
28.12.2010 - The blue track in Berlin has a little sister in Jena
After 17 years of use, the old running track in the “Ernst-Abbe-Sportfeld” stadium at Jena had reached the end of the road. From now on, a new Regupol synthetic running track, manufactured and installed by the BSW GmbH, will provide the new training facilities for athletes at Jena.
28.12.2010 - Innovative adhesives for bonding artificial turf
Conipur 106: Significantly more efficient than conventional products. Much less moisture sensitive. Can also be used under extreme climate conditions.
28.12.2010 - Active kids – clever kids: it’s the open space that matters
The “Bewegte Schule” (“School in motion”) also caters for the individual needs of pupils for exercise by offering a wide range of extracurricular activities. For as Prof. Renate Zimmer likes to point out: romping around makes children clever!
22.11.2010 - Municipalities sound alarm - companies rally round
Local authorities in Germany frequently lack the resources to construct new playgrounds and to maintain those already in existence. Commercial enterprises have decided that they have a duty to provide help.
22.11.2010 - The TURF and GRASS EXPO 2010
The TURF and GRASS EXPO 2010: 8. - 9. Dezember 2010, Amsterdam
19.11.2010 - More focus on early childhood education in Germany
The early childhood education state monitor internet portal Ländermonitor Frühkindliche Bildungssysteme 2010 reports widely differing rates of investment by individual Germany states - more and more 1- and 2-year-olds are attending day care centres
19.11.2010 - Financial emergency: German local authorities cut back on services and increase taxes
Survey among German local authorities
Everyday life in difficult times: more leisure time spent at home; TV, family and indolence dominate.
19.11.2010 - Second round of competition with "Mission Olympic"
Five active NRW towns want to reach the final
19.11.2010 - Author collective: more colour for ‘white areas’
Munich 2009: Brochure published by the ‘Spielraumkommission der LH München’, 56 pages
06.10.2010 - More than 60,000 trade visitors at GaLaBau 2010
The 4-day GaLaBau exhibition with its PLAYGROUND and Deutsche Golfplatztage segments finished in Nürnberg on Saturday, 18September 2010, with more than 60,000 trade visitors once again.
25.08.2010 - Green spaces for the general public
Interview with Hanns-Jürgen Redeker, President of the German Association for Garden, Landscaping and Sport Facilities (Bundesverbandes Garten-, Land-schafts- und Sportplatzbau e. V., BGL) regarding the topic “Greenery”.
18.08.2010 - Kulmbach invests in green spaces and playgrounds
Play is not just for children. Open-air exercise facilities have thus been created in public green spaces throughout Germany that - as ‘multigenerational playgrounds’ - have their attractions for young and old.
18.08.2010 - On the future of outdoor play
by Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Jürgen Milchert, Dean of Studies at the Department of Agricultural Architecture, deputy dean, deputy spokesman for landscape planning courses (University of Osnabrück).
The UK’s national playground and safety surface event PlayFair took place at the end of June at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry. Supported by the Association of Play Industries, this two day trade event has been hailed as the best to date.
18.08.2010 - International trade fair for the design, construction and maintenance of green spaces
GaLaBau is back again in 2010. A visit to the exhibition in Nürnberg from 15–18 September is a firm entry in the diaries of experts in the green sector. Landscape gardeners, landscape architects and decision-makers from local authority parks departments source information on new products and trends at the four-day international Trade Fair for Urban Green and Open Spaces, which takes place every two years.
18.08.2010 - More than just a synthetic turf pitch
by Markus Illgas, Alfred Ulenberg & Partner (landscape architects AKNW/bdla).
Project report about the development scheme for the sport facilities Hegestrasse in Gladbeck, Germany:
18.08.2010 - The TURF and GRASS EXPO 2010
Are you looking at the option of artificial turf? Are you confused with all the aspects and potential options? Do you want to find out the facts on technical, sports participation, community development, financials, medical, player development, best practice, standards and competition regulations?
18.08.2010 - New light athletic projects in the USA
Polytan has completed several prestige projects in the USA – the leading nation for light athletics. Polytan installed top quality running tracks at Texas University for the “Youth Olympic Selection Trials”, at the University of Tennessee for the “South Eastern Conference Championships” and finally, at the University of Indiana for the “Big Ten Conference” meeting.
11.06.2010 - Individual sport pleasure at schools and in public parks
The sport equipment supplier Kübler Sport from Backnang in Germany, offers a flexible and relatively inexpensive sport facilities providing numerous possibilities for sport enthusiasts.
11.06.2010 - Turf pitches for FIFA Football World Cup 2010™
For the first time in history, a FIFA World Cup™ will be played on grass pitches which are reinforced with artificial grass.
10.06.2010 - Playfix Indoor: Safety in indoor playgrounds
The seamless safety flooring Playfix Indoor made by BSW GmbH, a manufacturer of sports and leisure floors located in Bad Berleburg/ Germany, was installed on the indoor playground of the newly opened Rathausgalerie shopping centre in Leverkusen.
10.06.2010 - Five new Timberplay sites enhance Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham will soon be alive with the delighted screams of children as they enjoy the wealth of new play opportunities provided by five Timberplay playgrounds.
10.06.2010 - Snug… Born in the USA
Snug, Sutcliffe Play’s innovative and unique loose parts play equipment has made the journey across the Atlantic to be part of the Chicago Children’s Museum’s (CCM) newest exhibit, Move, which opened February 12 and runs through to May 16, 2010.