New ages open up the use of new technologies. In the year 1977, when the first "Climate Booklet for Urban Development – Städtebauliche Klimafibel" was published, the Internet was largely unknown. Today, a quarter of a century later, the Internet has developed and established itself to be the best platform for presentation and distribution of information.

The advantages are obvious. Information is quickly available and easily updated. In contrary to printed literature, the costs of the use of colour are negligible and the linking of similar information is easily done.

The Ministry of Economy of the state of Baden-Württemberg supported by the municipal department of environmental protection of the capital Stuttgart took this development of the Internet into account by installing the "Climate Booklet for Urban Development Online – Städtebauliche Klimafibel Online" in the Internet.

Informations to the "Noise Booklet for Urban Developement Online", with notes for zoning and planing, find you under: staedtebauliche-laermfibel.de (available in English and German)

The ministry of transport and infrastructure also offers a "portal to the sustainable development of inner cities and municipalities in Baden-Wuerttemberg" (Portal zur nachhaltigen Innenentwicklung von Städten und Gemeinden in Baden-Württemberg) under innen-bw.de (in German).

The translation was done by Mr. Michael Dempsey from Detroit.

The translation was supportet by the
Robert Bosch Foundation
and the
Foundation for Nature and Environment
of the Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg.