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Derelict steel works and abandoned coal mining infrastructures are rusting away and nature recapturing the landscape. The local state government, NorthRhine-Westphalia, created a redevelopment approach called the International Building Exhibition (IBA) at Emscher Park to deal with the environmental damage and begin designing urban communities of the future. The government has put billions of dollars into Emscher Park, a series of green spaces, regrowing forests and recreational areas covering 497 square miles here in the northwest Ruhr Valley.

“This will certainly create new jobs for someone who plants, someone who maintains the plantation, and someone who is harvesting the biomass,” landscape architect Frank Lohrberg told worldchanging.com.