What does Munich look like in the future?
Above all, how is the city center changing in the state capital?
Trees instead of sheet metal?
Experts present the most important developments.
Munich 2030: What will
Munich
* - downtown
Munich
look like
in ten years?
The
corona pandemic is
accelerating processes that experts believe are already in the air.
An opportunity for the city center and the life of Munich residents?
Munich - A look into the future - who would not like to dare to do it.
What will downtown Munich look like in ten years?
There are already signs of decisive changes.
"The corona crisis accelerates processes that are already in the air," says
Professor Benedikt Boucsein
from the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
Similarly, see
Professor Stephan Kippes
, director of market research institute of the Real Estate Association of Germany (IVD) South and
Urban Development Councilor Dr.
Elisabeth Merk
.
Here the experts explain the most important developments:
The corona crisis accelerates processes that are already in the air
Professor Benedikt Boucsein from TUM
Munich 2030 - More green spaces against the heat effect in the city center
The inner city of the future should be one thing above all else:
greener
.
“This is also
essential
for the
urban climate of the future,
” explains Professor Benedikt Boucsein from the Chair of Urban Design at TUM.
After all, temperatures are rising due to climate change.
And in the
city center, the heat effects are more noticeable
than in the outer city districts.
“In 30 years at the latest, we will be dependent on it,” says Boucsein.
Tree planting is already planned at Georg-Kronawitter-Platz.
In summer it gets hotter and hotter in Munich.
Experts are again warning of extreme heat in the state capital.
This development can hardly be stopped *.
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Professor Benedikt Boucsein from TUM.
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More trees, fewer cars
- this could be the future.
A car-free city center, in turn, would mean that more space is available, which can be used for pedestrians and cyclists, for example.
The urban planning department is therefore working on a free space district concept for the
city center
.
“It is part of a green vision,” explains City Planning Councilor Merk.
It is also conceivable that former branches of the Isar or creek tributaries could be exposed.
Falling rents and more vacancies - concept for more apartments in Munich's old town
"It is questionable whether the high
rents
in the business core locations can still be achieved at this level," says IVD expert Kippes.
Because: If the productivity of the space falls, i.e. the amount of sales that can be generated, the rents must also fall.
“I could also imagine that landlords will have to do more with their properties in the future in order to keep them attractive,” says Kippes.
“
But I cannot imagine
vacancies in
Kaufingerstrasse
.” It looks different in so-called secondary core locations, such as in Pasing.
Despite the far low rents, the risk of vacancy is higher here.
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Prof. Dr.
Stephan Kippes
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An opportunity would be conversion: Instead of retail, more services could find a home here.
“For example, hairdressers, but also daycare centers are conceivable,” says Kippes.
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Empty shops could increase in the future - but there could be an opportunity for more living space.
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The online business is flourishing and brick-and-mortar
retailing is
suffering - this process has been evident for a long time.
In the
inner city of
the future, however, hybrid forms will probably be present, i.e. a combination of digital and on-site.
Order groceries online and pick them up in the store after work, automatic machines that tell you the right jeans size when buying clothes - all of this is already available in America.
Kippes estimates: "That will increase considerably for us too."
Less used retail space could mean more apartments.
According to
City Planning Councilor Merk,
there are already concepts that provide for 30 percent living in the old town.
If you look inside the
middle ring
, the potential for new living space is even greater.
The city center as a shopping monopoly - that could be over in the future
The
city center
as a shopping monopoly - that could be over in the future.
"If you look at the whole thing historically, it is not set in stone that the city center consists primarily of shopping opportunities," says Professor Benedikt Boucsein.
That only developed in the post-war period.
While people lived in the city centers before the war, after the war there was a separation of functions in several large cities.
Benedikt Boucsein thinks it is possible that this development will turn around again.
In other words: the city center could increasingly become a pulsating city quarter again.
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City Planning Officer Dr.
Elisabeth Merk.
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A development that
City Councilor Dr.
Elisabeth Merk
considers it possible.
Especially with regard to mixed use.
Tradesmen and young start-ups
could come to the
city center
and revitalize it and “rejuvenate it from the inside out”, according to City Councilor Merk.
If it has its way, culture and education and those working in the creative and cultural industries should also have more space in the city center in the future.
"That would further shape the identity of the old town."
The city center as a meeting place where people from
Munich
feel at home.
Incidentally, this is also how Signa, the company of mega investor
René Benko *,
sees it
.
He now owns several "fillet pieces" like the
old academy
.
The city center should be a “favorite place”, emphasizes managing director Tobias Sauerbier.
For the future, a “consistent move away from monostructural building use and strengthening of diversity” is important.
Gert Fritjof Goergens (77), urban planner and architect, was Munich's municipal home administrator for 17 years.
He had to watch some buildings disappear, even though they were monumental.
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