ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the "urbanised suburbs". The dense suburbs of the early twenty-first century re-edited the century-old Garden City theme in a quite different manner. Urbanised suburbs were built on any available land, including brownfields. Amsterdam's Borneo Island was a post-industrial development, but at the same time a part of the urbanised periphery. The same applied to Vienna-Aspern Lake Town or Glasgow-Maryhill Locks. Kirchsteigfeld is the most consequent realisation of Stimmann's principles and the largest example of New Urbanist design in Germany. The Kirchsteigfeld was specifically designed to provide the proximity of working and living. The design of Kirchsteigfeld emerged in several steps, albeit in a less formalised way than the multi-tiered competitions in West Berlin's or Vienna's fruit salad estates. After German reunification the need for expansion was generally acknowledged and a profitable enterprise for many West German investors.
