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BerlinTXL, the transformation of a former airport into a pioneering sustainble and digitally-driven urban quarter remains one of Germany's few and exciting "greenfield developments" in the Smart City space. With this session we want to update the International Smart Cities Network on the progress since the last time BerlinTXL visited the "ISCN Global Mixer" as a speaker and thus offer a close-up to the rythm of this major and inspiring project.

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer the city of Halle (Saale) presented their Digital Twin project HAL-Plan. Katja Gehrmann and Albert Steinbach gave insights into the key components of the solution and the toolsets they derive from the twin in the areas of urban planning, ecology, economic development and mobility.

In this episode of the ISCN Global Mixer, Shanmathi Rajkumar and Paul Stadelhofer from TU Dresden presented the U_CAN project, which supports Ukraine’s transition to carbon-neutral and smart urban development. U_CAN, funded by the European Union’s Horizon program, connects six Ukrainian pilot cities with European counterparts to implement tailored innovations and drive smart urban development through knowledge-sharing initiatives.

Urban mining is a circular economy approach that aims for systematically reusing waste as a resource, instead of disposing it. In this ISCN Global Mixer, Tanya Tsui from the MIT Senseable Amsterdam Lab illustrates how AI can be used to close material cycles in cities and invites discussion which potential applications the approach offers.

XPlanung is the data standard and data exchange format for IT procedures relating to spatial planning, state and regional planning, urban land use planning and landscape planning in Germany. It enables the transfer of planning data between different IT systems and therefore a more efficient processing of building applications. In this event, we have the opportunity to learn about the different features of XPlanung.

The transformation and redevelopment of the former Berlin Tegel airport into the "Urban Tech Republic" and other districts is perhaps the closest one can get to a smart greenfield development in Germany. In this ISCN Global Mixer, Stefan Höffken, the head of the project, gives an overview on their exciting plans and shares experiences on specific use cases they are developing.