ENTER.HUB_Baseline study PDF, 6 Mo - Urbact

EUROPEAN
UNION
European Regional
Development Fund
ENTER.HUB 1st phase city description
4 Ulm DE
CHARACTERISATION
Ulm, with a city population approaching 120,000 inhabitants, is a
city in the southwest of the federal Land Baden-Württemberg in
Germany.
As a city by the river Danube has European connections with the
cities alongside the river entering the Black Sea with important
trade routes crossing.
Ulm was always the centre of this part of Baden-Württemberg, is
also the cultural, logistic and technology centre of the region. Ulm
is a “Science City” with a Science park, which is run by the
municipality. Important international enterprises like Daimler and
Siemens are part of this Science City, but also start ups find their
way to it. Science City exists since 30 years now. Ulm is part of
many clusters around the region: life sciences, bio, automotive,
logistic and more.
The backbone of Ulm’s economy is the small and middle sized
enterprises. Together Science City and SME offer 80.000 jobs in the
region around Ulm.
LOCAL CHALLENGES
The HS station will bring new demand of amenities and services to the city and the
region. The challenge will be to exploit the demand for houses and service buildings
(brought by the HSL arrival) to get strategies for sustainable housing and sustainable
transport. It will be important also to guarantee a high quality of staying in the station
area. The European aspect of the Magistrale HS line is also crucial. More travellers
from Europe will mean a European level of acceptance.
One of the challenges is also to combine the station with all kinds of means of public
transport, preferably with sustainable one like trams, buses, e-bikes and car sharing
facilities. It is important that there will be no social problems in the quarter because of
gentrification. The other challenge will be to attract investors.
Managing authority
ENTER.HUB Baseline study 2012.10.31