“InnLandnutzt UmLand” focuses on the development of agriculture and agribusiness in the region around Mühldorf am Inn. One of the aims of the project, which was developed as part of a Master’s in Urban Studies at the Technical University of Munich, is to transform the town into a self-sufficient supplier society through resilient and productive agriculture. At the same time, this results in further advantages for social and green urban development.
A long-term, strategic development of the city of Mühldorf am Inn shows the actual state of 2053 in the future image through the development of spatially concrete interventions. Image: Paulina Schroeder
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The project
The project “InnLanduses UmLand” shows an alternative future for local development in Mühldorf am Inn up to 2053. The aim is to develop the town sustainably over the next thirty years, taking into account the landscape, through both short-term and long-term investments in the economy, demographics and sustainability. The focus is on three intervention areas on the outskirts of the city, which have different development potentials due to their different characteristics and should contribute in particular to the future of agriculture and farming in the region. In rural areas in particular, the primary sector of the labor market is losing importance, while new employment sectors such as the knowledge economy are gaining in importance. However, it is precisely the rural environment that offers the quality of a secondary city in a metropolitan region. The result is an increasing influx of people from the city.
Making agriculture resilient
Our aim is to make this field of work more attractive, especially for future generations, through innovation and transformation and to counteract the advancing climate change and the increasing risks of industrial agriculture. Increased water consumption, soil overexploitation and increasing crop failures are the effects of monocultural farming. In order to preserve the productive landscape in the future, it must be made more resilient and an awareness must be created in society. In order to enable access to the work processes, active participation in local production in urban areas can provide an impetus for such change.
Better organization and networking between the actors shaping the townscape creates sustainable development and preserves the landscape spaces in the city and the surrounding region. Picture: Paulina Schroeder
A self-sufficient supply company is to be created
The district town is to become a pioneer for the district through a self-sufficient supply company. The cultivation of local produce through neighborhood participation can spread to individual households. Temporary use of open spaces will become long-term meeting places for young and old. The newly created attractiveness as a place to live and work will bind the young population to the location in the long term. Jobs in local family-run companies will be strengthened through adaptation strategies and the further development of digitalization. New, innovative companies in the field of agriculture and agribusiness are creating an interesting and sustainable professional sector and attracting skilled workers and trainees.
Sustainable agriculture means creating an agricultural structure in which environmentally friendly agricultural technologies are used and the long-term conservation of natural resources is a prerequisite. Picture: Büyükişcana mine
Space-reducing urban development
The prerequisite for this is the construction of flexible and small residential units as an alternative to monofunctional single-family housing estates. Densification and mixing in existing residential and commercial areas will result in the most sustainable and space-reducing urban growth possible. The construction of the eastern bypass could reduce the high volume of traffic in the city center. Main traffic routes will become less important, while footpaths and cycle paths will gain in importance. The local recreation area on the banks of the Inn will also be given a new quality as a new green space network between the center and the southern quarter and will become more accessible through various interventions. The improved green network between the edges of the settlement and the historic city center allows the residential areas to grow together.
The measures in the various areas of potential are evolving from temporary interventions to long-term structural developments that are interlinked and involve different stakeholders. Picture: Amelina Brandes
The design was created as part of “Mühldorf 2053”, an interdisciplinary project in the Master’s program in Urbanism at the Technical University of Munich. You can read more about the background to the project here, and the designs of other students can be found here.