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Press and Announcements
- [AZ] Debate about Aachen city center
- [AZ] Urban planning forum with great response
- [AZ] Interview with Prof. Christa Reicher
- [TG] Portrait of Christa Reicher
- You Are Here:Interview with Prof. Christa Reicher
- [AZ] Aachen receives Unesco Chair
- [WAZ] Urban development
- [Tagesspiegel Background] Public health
- *** [AZ] Ausgezeichnetes Lebenswerk ***
- *** Zeitung Region Creglingen ***
- [Bauwelt.de] Housing
- *** [Börsenblatt] Stadtentwicklung ***
- *** Franken-Magazin "Stadtgespräch" ***
- [ZEIT] Hellhörig Magazin:Welcome to the neighborhood of the future
- Transformation of the German lignite mines an opportunity for South Limburg
- [ZEIT] Hellhörig Magazin:Welcome to the neighborhood of the future
- [local] A place of learning for urban development
- [Spiegel] Giant Lego for Germany's cities
- [AZ] "Make some space- also your the head!"
- [SP] New Talk »Business Unusual«
- [AZ/AN] Ideas for Schophoven of the future
- [Deutschlandfunk] What do you consider to be part of a liveable city?
- [BWT] Bonn Business Talk: Urban and Spatial Planning
- [AZ] "Make some space- also your the head!"
- [Deutschlandfunk Kultur] "Combining the social with the ecological".
- [AZ] "What happens, if...?"
- [Welt am Sonntag] "Vision with sea view"
- [AZ] "Students look far ahead"
- [faz] "It takes courage to say there will be no building here."
- [P@L] The role of Public Space
- [Publik Forum] A plan for more quality of life
- [ZDFinfo] Brennpunkt Deutschland: Dortmund, Nordstadt
- [AZ] "Searching for alternatives to the automobile"
- [AZ] "Mobilität und Bürgerbeteiligung"
- [Böblinger Kreiszeitung] Playful beginning for a new quarter
- [AZ/AN] "Aus dem Reiff in die ganze Welt gesendet"
- [AZ/AN] "Make some space!"
- [hwk-aachen.de] "Mach' mal Platz!"
- [Welt] "Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof to close 62 stores"
- [WDR] "Summer in the City: Strategies against Heat"
- [Deutschlandfunk] "New skyscrapers in the cityscape"
- [AZ] "How does a university become a city?"
- [DAB] "Land must become common property!"
- [AZ] Campus West still remains a "big construction site" socially too
- [AZ] The Kármán Auditorium should be filled with life again
- [WDR] The future of our cities
- [WDR] "Mit cleverem Städtebau gegen die Hitze"
- [SP] Interview mit Prof. Reicher
- [AZ] Aachen muss sein Potential viel besser nutzen
- [AN] Shopping der Zukunft
- [AN] Marienhospital Aachen
- [AN] Büchel: Guggenheim in die Altstadt pflanzen?
- [TC] Transforming Cities 02/19
- [Bauwelt] Ist die Lehre der Stadt an den Hochschulen noch zeitgemäß?
- [inHerne] Hochkarätiges Forschungsprojekt mit namhaften Universitäten startet in Herne
- [halloHerne] Das Herner Davids-Prinzip
- [WAZ] Ressourcenschutz in Quartieren: Herne wird Modellstadt
- [WILA] Die DNA der Stadt entwickeln
- [WILA] Fachkräfte für die Städte von morgen
- [RN] Doppelter Abschied für Stadtplanerin
- [AN] Kolloquium an der RWTH Aachen
- [AN] Prof. Christa Reicher will die Stadtentwicklung voranbringen
- [WP] Schön und groß: Architektur-Preis für AVZ der Fernuni Hagen
- [idw] Big Beautiful Buildings: Sanierung einer Stadt
- [MM] Vortrag über öffentlichen Raum