West 8's Goals & Intentions. "Living in new Jenfeld"

Q: Have another wander around the internet or the library looking at the work of West 8. Charles Waldheim notes on p.46 of his essay "Landscape as Urbanism" that "Taken together, the range of West 8's recent production illustrates the potential for landscape architecture to supplant architecture, urban design, and urban planning as design disciplines responsible for recording post-industrial urban sites." Is there a project in particular that you think illustrates the point well? How does it work? What are West 8's goals and intentions with the project?

Living in New Jenfeld, 2005, Hamburg, Germany.

"In close cooperation with the City of Hamburg and the district Wansbeck West 8 is developing an urban structure for the former casern of Lettow Vorbeck. On 29 hectares, a complete new quarter for living and working will be developed over the next few years.

Row houses with individual brick facades together with typical white detached houses will be arranged around four romantic public spaces. Together the new public spaces will serve as a district park comprising lawns with trees, pavilions, ponds and a water cascade. All storm water will be collected in small trenches along the streets to feed the water cascade and then flow into the central pond, which will act as a water retention basin.
Water is an important feature in New Jenfeld. Besides its sustainable and visually strong impact on the new area it also has an educational function for young children; they learn about the function and flow of the water whilst playing with it.
Other eco-friendly measures are the use of solar cells on top of the roofs of the buildings and high energy building standards that will help create a vital and responsible new quarter."

Info taken from: http://www.west8.nl/projects/sustainable_planning/living_in_new_jenfeld/

I found this project in Germany on West 8's webpage. I love it! To me it links with the question because it has all of the points involed, I think looking through the website a lot of West 8's prjoects relate to the question. But this was one of my favourites! And it relates to my pervious case study on sustainable planning. More places like this need to be considered for the future.
 
Another interest was the only West 8 project in England - the Stratford City. Will definatly keep watch to see how it develops. :)