Living spaces, cities and regions shaping the built environment for everyone : smart cooperation for urban development : social mix in the Blumengroßmarkt in Berlin : peer learning visit report

A wasteland around the Jewish Academy in the former flower market (Blumengrossmarkt) in the centre of Berlin offered the opportunity to transform a socially stigmatised neighbourhood into a more diverse urban area. The transformation followed the ideal of the mixed city facilitating the coexistence of different actors and using a co-creative approach. The redevelopment of the former Blumengrossmarkt is a good example of a cooperation between the public bodies and public interest driven developers to develop a lively, mixed-use area that opens to its surrounding social housing neighbourhood and provides various spaces for multiple uses in high-quality architecture buildings.