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FIGURE 14.1 The Bottrop city pilot area for sustainable redevelopment (InnovationCity Ruhr,
2017).

industrial processes and enterprises. In the year 2010 Initiativkreis Ruhr
GmbH, put on a competition throughout the Ruhr region to select a city that
would focus on sustainability and serve as an example for all the other cities in
the region how to reduce GHG emissions. Innovation City Ruhr is a
privateepublic partnership project associated with approximately 70 busi-
nesses coming from energy, services, trade, logistics, and consulting, one such
member being Siemens. The city of Bottrop was selected because of its broad
base of stakeholders that could involve themselves in the project such as those
from the local government and businesses. The goal of the city is to reduce its
CO 2 emissions by 50% of 2010 by 2020 through a variety of sustainable
measures. A company was set up, called Innovation City Management GmbH
(ICM), to manage the project. The company is made up of urban planning
experts, energy professionals as well as communications experts and consists
of 30 people. A majority of the company is owned and supported by Ini-
tiativkreis Ruhr GmbH, with the city of Bottrop, a local energy company, an
industry and public sector consultancy, and real estate company, each being
10% shareholders. The projects are limited to the inner city of Bottrop plus the
surrounding districts, comprising a total of 67,000 people and representing the
variety of the Ruhr region as a whole (InnovationCity Ruhr, 2017)(Fig. 14.1).

A Blueprint for Success
A master plan titled “Climate friendly urban conversion” of approximately
1300 pages was created by collecting a wide range of information from