The "white spot" is described: when approaching, the contours become clearer, differences and similarities more obvious
 
The discourse is continued: new levels
 
   a) "Nature" and NEW URBANISM
New cooperative projects: in the reference region Industrial Garden Realm, a new charette is carried out: the spectrum of design spheres is extended by the one of the landscape: designing at the border between the interwoven post-industrial landscape and already regained "nature" from early industrial utilization. The relationship between the protection of nature and the designing of a post-industrial landscape is a deficit in NU, but also in the discussion in Europe about the prospects and the understanding of the "protection of nature". Location of the project: industrial village Zschornewitz, mining areas and nature park.
 
   b) The "itinerant preacher"
Harald Bodenschatz puts up the NU for discussion at German universities and colleges - interest, but also skepticism are shown, the public discussion has commenced - although sporadically and timidly only - and sometimes is benevolently accompanied by the press.
 
   c) The systematic finishing has begun - a "typical German" contribution:
From excursions over several weeks and some visits in the USA as well as the analysis of textbooks and conference materials, a publication is prepared which covers the history, the institutional foundations, the projects, the criticism and the international development prospects of NU - from the European perspective.
 
   d) Projects are implemented - a "typical American" contribution:
Investors start to implement the first projects with architects who belong to NU or are considered as belonging to it. With Robert Stern as the "flagship", it seems as if NU moves in: noble projects in neo-traditional architecture. The impression arises that NU is just a variant in architecture only and not a movement of urban construction, and that it orients to the rich in society - the aesthetic and social prejudice is affirmed!
 
However: also the deficit in European culture of urban construction is affirmed: there is no movement which would be able to follow interrelated objectives (see Charta), to create publicly effective reference projects (exception: IBA Emscher Park), to initiate interdisciplinary cooperation, which could hold controversial - but jointly organized - conferences of sociopolitical relevance, and which, by all this, would be able to initiate practical contributions to the limitation of suburbanization avalanches, of social splitting and the demolition of precious structures and to decisively - on a European level - manage the development of a public culture of shaping the environment in the cities and regions.
 
Do not miss the chances:
 
The tasks are immense: The sprawl continues to increase - in the USA as in Europe. And the social splitting in the cities is growing. The problems of the farewell to the industrial society are tightening. But just in the countries which belong to the initial areas of industrialization, Europe and Northern America, forces begin to line up to fight these problems. In the USA, these forces are rather well organized already, and they have succeeded in making themselves heard. The conditions in Europe have not reach this level yet. But there is little interweaving between Europe and the USA only. The CNU - as it seems by now - can live without any interlacing with Europe, the Europeans without the exact knowledge of the reforms in urban construction in the USA. This is not a good situation. For both sides. We must intensify the cultural exchange. The cooperation between the Bauhaus and CNU was an important first step for it. This should be used as the basis to search for new forms of cooperation, which overcome the deficits and enable joint activities against the sprawl and for the shaping of a livable urban future.
 
 
References:
 

-	Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (1996): Industrielles Gartenreich, Dessau (Industrial Garden Realm)
-	Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (1999): Industrielles Gartenreich - 2, Dessau (Industrial Garden Realm - 2)
-	Die Alte Stadt, 4/1998 (Alte Stadt - neu gebaut), Vierteljahreszeitschrift für Stadtgeschichte, Stadtsoziologie und Denkmalpflege (German translation of the Charta, pages 336 - 342)
-	The New City, 1996, Miami, S. 130-131 (Charta of the New Urbanism)
-	Stadtbauwelt 12/2000: New Urbanism (contributions of Bodenschatz, Kegler, Lejeune, Duany, Norquist, Gratz, Krieger)

 
Contact:
Dr. Harald Kegler, Labor für Regionalplanung, c/o Piesteritzer Siedlung, Karl-Liebknecht-Platz 21, 06886 Lutherstadt Wittenberg, harald_kegler@yahoo.com , T: 0340 6612368 oder 03491 407280
 
  Thesen der Experimentellen Werkstatt am Bauhaus Dessau, September 1990