New Perspectives for Népliget Public park in Budapest

By: Ellen Fetzer

The last main project of the IMLA 2010 course took place in Budapest, Hungary. The task was to redesign the Népliget public park.

Népliget park in Budapest

The question of how to revitalise this park has been the focus of much research during the last few years. Budapest has lost residents to the suburbs, an estimated 250.000 in the last decade, in part because of the city's lack of green public space. Népliget has a significant history as a large park designed to entertain the working classes that lived in the surrounding neigbourhoods ever since it was first created as an English landscape park in the 19th century.

However, today Népliget is no longer a favourite park according to the 2007 public opinion survey. The aim of this project was to analyse the current situation and to develop specific concepts for revitalizing and rehabilitating the park. During their stay on site in Budapest the IMLA students worked together with landscape architecture students from Corvinus University under the supervision of landscape architect Kristin Faurest and Professor Frieder Luz from Weihenstephan-Triesdorf.

Please download the project brochure for more information on the project's background and the results.