Refabrication: Invention of a city centre

After the millennium, the City of Flöha (DE) embarked on one of the most ambitious urban projects seen among small towns in eastern Germany since reunification: transforming a large-scale industrial estate into a new centre for the city’s inhabitants. This complex transformation integrated a multitude of strategies, focusing simultaneously on infrastructure and accessibility, marketing, attracting investors, ongoing participation processes, and establishing public functions and open spaces. Currently, redevelopment continues with housing in repurposed historic factory buildings, the design of a new market square, and restoring a former factory owner’s park.