Since August of 2015, Germany has become home to more than 1.1 million refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers. This influx has German architects and urban planners asking the question: “Do we have a refugee crisis on our hands? Or a housing crisis combined with huge challenges to the ability of cities, job markets, and schools to integrate the newcomers?” — the Atlantic
[Doug Saunders] cautions that arrival cities are “where the new creative and commercial class will be born, or where the next wave of tension and violence will erupt.” The difference, he adds “depends on how we approach these districts both organizationally and politically, and, crucially, in terms of physical structures and built form.”
For more on the mass migrations transforming Europe, Africa and the Middle East, check out these links:
One student’s solution to the permanent limbo of refugee camps
Photographing the ‘Jungle’ of Calais’ refugee camp
Fire breaks out at refugee camp in the Duesseldorf airport
Kenya moves to shut down Dadaab, the world’s biggest refugee camp
