: Andreas Seidl
: Handover of Power - Infrastructure European Version - Volume 16/21
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Infrastructure rethought Do you also sometimes worry that the increasing traffic is robbing you of time and money? And do you also wish to live in your own four walls? What infrastructure policy can offer us a homeland worth living in without being at the expense of humans and nature? This book tells us: ... how producers and disposers can make waste valuable in a circular economy and how goods and data can be transported in underground networks. ... how long-distance transport for persons can be shifted to the air and to maglev trains and local transport can be shifted to bicycles and carpools. ... which building projects can make it possible for everyone to own their own home and for energy to be generated and stored both centrally from the moon and the sun and decentrally on existing buildings. After 20 years of work on this book series, Andreas Seidl thus ventures a step towards founding a party. In doing so, he entertains his readers both intellectually and visionarily. If this work can give you hope, inspire you or move you to action, it has fulfilled its purpose. Available in German and English

The author is a qualified political scientist and social education worker. He acquired his professional experience in Brussels at the European Union, in Frankfurt at the stock exchange and in day-care centres for children in the Rhine-Main area of Germany. He has been keeping a diary of ideas for 20 years and publishes in this book all his previous political proposals for solutions in an overall concept. As a passionate social researcher, he is interested in the concerns, lifestyles and ideas for the future of his fellow human beings. As a convinced democrat, he enjoys going to demonstrations and activists to find out what motivates them and what causes their motivations. As an author, he strives for restrained criticism, constructive approaches to solutions and writing in understandable language.

4.3.1 Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources37


The Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources continuously controls the stock of raw materials in the country and carries out measurements at undeveloped sites. It sends its results to the Company Auditing Agency for verification and to the Statistical Office for statistics38 . The institute ensures measurement of how fast which finite raw materials are consumed and when the raw material is used up. To limit consumption, the Minister of Infrastructure is allowed to interfere with economic freedom and increase the price. Any price increase must be immediately invested in the development of substitutes.

In cooperation with the ministries of Innovation, Education and Planned Economy, biotechnologically producible and biodegradable substitutes for all finite raw materials are being developed.

The institute is responsible for surveying on land, at sea, in the air and in space. It forwards all collected data to the Ministry of Digital Affairs for processing into statistics. Based on this data, permits for construction and mining projects are granted or not.

4.3.2 Agricultural land


The Ministry of Infrastructure cooperates with farmers for nature-based agriculture39 . The aim of the cooperation is for farmers to carry out horticulture and landscaping on stateowned land. To this end, shrubs and trees with edible fruits and nuts are planted and cared for along the edges of roads and paths, as well as edible plants in parks. This provides additional free food for the population. Foliage and prunings from stateowned land and agriculture are processed into heat, electricity and fertiliser in biogas plants. The resulting bioenergy and biomass are available primarily to the municipality, secondarily to the people and thirdly to foreigners. The Ministry of Infrastructure manages this bioeconomy, which provides growth through perennial crops and supports the population with food, electricity and heat.

4.4 Urban development


The Ministry of Infrastructure operates a decentralised urban development policy through the deputy infrastructure ministers in the municipalities. In committees with the citizens of the municipality, they determine where in the municipality which building culture is permitted or prohibited. This includes whether and how development plans are created, whether and how development is intermixed or segregated with properties for different income levels and companies, and whether and how urban redevelopment should take place with the joint cooperation of all residents. For example, a small town could decide to gradually renovate its half-timbered houses in the old town together and thus save on labour costs and purchase skilled labour and materials more cheaply in an alliance.

In the local Building Offices in the Town Hall, the land registry is operated digitally and the digital infrastructure for Smart Cities is laid when new construction or expansion of roads, paths and buildings takes place.

The Ministry of Infrastructure lays down town planning law and land registry law for the entire country, which the municipalities must adhere to. Urban planning law specifies where cities may be built and how far they may extend. The Land Registry Law stipulates how land boundaries are to be drawn and that owners of land must be known by name to the Building Office.

4.4.1 Living40


The Ministry of Infrastructure, through its Building Department, operates a state real estate and housing industry that promotes home ownership through lease-purchase procedures of its purpose-built buildings. This promotion is granted to individuals and housing cooperatives. For the purpose of housing assistance, the Construction Team may be requested by municipalities with low-income or elderly populations to build or rehabilitate housing in cooperation with the municipal population throughout the municipality.

4.4.2 Home ownership rate41


The Ministry of Infrastructure aims for a home ownership rate of 90%