The Next Generation

So, we went to the city of Duisburg today. It is an industrial city that is trying very hard to become metropolitan. We visited the public park that we have studied in the past, especially in our reuse areas. The Landschaftspark, or lanscape park in Duisburg was constructed out of the old iron and steel mill. It was shut down in 1985 and now sits as a public park for the people of Duisburg.
The original pieces of the mill still stand, and even one is open to explore. There are many different uses found in the site including indoor soccer, concert halls, gardens, playgrounds and rock climbing walls. One of the features they installed to be more green is a giant windmill. It was supposed to aerate the water that is runoff from the rest of the site so that it doesnt go stagnant, but as our tour guide stated Germans like to go big. The windmill is the largest of its kind in the world and took wind too fast. It is broken now, the fin is pushed aside, and the water in the unmoving manmade river below it lies stagnant....oops. It was raining while we were there and the wind from the top of the blasting furnace made it sway in the wind when we were 5 meters in the air on top of it. Oh, also, there is an IKEA that was built on the site where the soil is toxic as if to say "good luck next generation"