Fewer traffic jams, more green, better quality of life: In metropolises like Paris, this is no longer a utopia. Here, public space is being rethought and redesigned – for the benefit of all. Maja Göpel, an expert in sustainability policy, writes about cities of the future. Maya Goepel Access to all STERN PLUS content and articles from the print magazine Ad-free & can be canceled at any time Already registered? Sign up here source site
The bestseller list makes a clear statement: "We can also do it differently", Maja Göpel's new non-fiction book, is currently in third place. It sells well, just like her book from 2020. Few manage it like the political economist, not least the ecological one To convey the upheaval in society in this way, also on TV or at congresses. Other professional things are more volatile: Göpel will not head a new center at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW)...
Maja Göpel and Eva von Redecker call for new, ecological thinking. But who could enforce it?What happens when the constant growth of the economy "ceases to be a requirement" for ecological reasons, and when the question must be asked who can limit and perhaps limit progress? "But who should have the power to enforce things here that are not defined by profit, but cost money?" These questions do not come from a Fridays-for-Future manifesto, but from the year 1972: With...
The myth is still hot and unshakable, whoever is struck by its spell will suffer forever. We are talking about "King Oedipus", the drama of Sophocles, almost 2500 years old and yet something like the piece of the hour. The plague appears in it and the self-knowledge of the title hero, who has been struck with blindness and who gradually realizes that he himself is the perpetrator he is looking for, the murderer of his father, the husband of his...
