Berlin wins praise for its hosting of the World Championships in Athletics
via Berlin wins praise for its hosting of the World Championships in Athletics | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 25.08.2009.

The IAAF World Championships in Athletics held for the first time in Berlin drew to a close at the weekend. For the German capital, [...]

Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000. The urban area had an estimated population of 2.26 million in 2001.[1] The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region which has a population of 5.3 million and [...]

Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany is sponsoring this interesting research on Energy- and climate-efficient structures in urban growth centres.
A prominent example for global changes that no longer affect individual countries or regions alone but affect the whole of humanity is the trend towards urbanisation and the spread of “megacities”, especially in developing and newly [...]