Living and building in cities must be redefined - because this will be decisive for life on our planet

More than half of all people worldwide already live in cities rather than in the countryside. By 2050, the proportion of city dwellers is expected to rise to just under 70%.

How we live and build in cities will significantly shape climate change, but also social change on our planet. The concept of the Frankfurt Bridges is groundbreaking for the most important points that urban planning must take into account in the future in order to have cities that are as humane as they are sustainable. Hypermodern, gigantomaniac urban structures that destroy everything old and grown are NOT characteristics of the humane city of the future.

Rather, the Frankfurt bridges show how the most important trends of the future can be introduced integratively into existing conurbations. For ecological reasons alone, not everything old can be completely torn down and rebuilt. So we have to deal with what is there - and what is also very often lovable and worth preserving.

The Frankfurt Bridges show a quarter solution for all urban planning and living areas: from a new quarter in the middle of the old city area, which can rub off on the surrounding existing quarters and successively change them.

On a meta-level, the Frankfurt bridges implement a neighbourhood construction method that can be a catalyst and role model for urban planning of the future worldwide

Whatif... .

All cities have autonomous driving traffic

Invisibly generate photovoltaic electricity on all suitable urban surfaces

All new buildings to be equipped with ground-source geothermal energy

All new buildings receive thermally activatable surfaces

All supply systems intelligently controlled Save energy

All open spaces in the city to be irrigated and landscaped

All shops and catering establishments are connected to a low-packaging system

All things that are broken, can be repaired cheaply and promptly

Howmuch CO2couldbesaved?

A first estimate: At least half of urban CO2 emissions could be avoided - by the modern city of the future: Realized in the old stock and with more quality of life

Eco-concrete as a proven building material reduces CO2 emissions during construction by 30% or more

Carbon reinforcement can reduce CO2 emissions during construction by up to 30%.

Autonomouslycontrolledtraffic in the city

reduces energy consumption of vehicles by at least 50%

Reduces vehicle damage and wear and tear and therefore production by more than 70%.

enables greening of traffic areas

Integrated photovoltaics including control: invisible everywhere, reduces power generation through fossil combustion by 70% and storage losses through intelligent peak load use by 30%.

Ground-source geothermal energy in the city reduces heating and cooling by 50% through fossil combustion

Building withthermallyactivatedsurfaces reduces heating energy consumption by up to 40%.

Green areas in the city through irrigation systems reduce the CO2 content of the air by up to 2 tons per hectare.

Turningawayfromthethrowawayculture not only reduces microplastic from packaging waste by 80%, but also avoids 50% of CO2 emissions in the case of complexity-reduced plastic.

More than 35 billion tons of CO2 are emitted worldwide every year: Stopping the increase alone is already a challenge

The concepts of the Frankfurt bridges address half of all CO2 emission drivers

CO2 must be saved by all means - because once in the atmosphere, it cannot yet be bound again on a large scale