21st Century (2000–present)

Stuttgart Rosenstein Quartier

2010s– · Germany · Western & Central Europe · Post-industrial regeneration and waterfront urbanism · Planned by City of Stuttgart
Site plan of the Rosenstein framework planning, Stuttgart: new quarters and the Gleisbogenpark on the rail lands freed by Stuttgart 21
Site plan of the Rosenstein framework planning, Stuttgart: new quarters and the Gleisbogenpark on the rail lands freed by Stuttgart 21 · © Studio Urbane Strategien — used with credit · Studio Urbane Strategien — Rahmenplanung Rosenstein, Stuttgart (with asp Architekten / Koeber Landschaftsarchitektur)

Core idea

Rail yard redevelopment + park extension

Why it matters

Large central brownfield conversion

Description

A plan by the City of Stuttgart for the Rosenstein quarter, a large tract of central railway yards released by the Stuttgart 21 project, which places the main station's through-tracks underground. Developed through international competition and extensive civic participation, the plan proposes a dense, largely car-free set of neighbourhoods on the former rail land, together with a substantial extension of the adjoining Rosenstein Park, knitting the site into the surrounding city districts.

Significance

Rosenstein is among the largest central brownfield conversions in Europe, and its fortunes are inseparable from the controversies of Stuttgart 21, which provoked some of Germany's fiercest infrastructure protests. It is watched as a test of whether the land dividend of undergrounding railways can deliver climate-orientated, socially mixed inner-city districts, and its emphasis on park extension reflects the landscape turn in German urbanism.

What shaped it

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