Helga Fassbinder

Amsterdam-Vienna

Helga Fassbinder is an urban planner, political scientist, writer, professor emeritus of the University of Technology Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and University of Technology Hamburg, Germany. She lives in Amsterdam and Vienna. She is editing BIOTOPE CITY JOURNAL – THE CITY AS NATURE Fifteen years ago, she developed the concept of ‘Biotope City – the City as Nature’, and started the Foundation Biotope City, which is exploring new urban aesthetics and ethics. The Foundation has produced the BIOTOPE CITY JOURNAL since 2006. Meanwhile the first ‘Biotope City’ is being built in Vienna. www.biotope-city.net