FEATURE REPORT/Dortmund, rescued through biggest urban development programme in Germany

The city of Dortmund, of which some believed it would remain history after 1998, once with the shutting of the PHOENIX West steel works, part of Thyssen Krupp, the backbone of the local industry, has revived after implementing one of the amplest urban development programmes in Germany. The new Dortmund, counting over 600,000 inhabitants, has now become one of the most modern and dynamic cities of Germany, economically speaking.

For the second time in its modern history, Dortmund which is 1,132 years old has proven it could rebirth as it did after the World War II, when it has been destroyed almost entirely, and of its monuments stone over stone has not remained.

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