To revitalize the Ruhr, state and local governments have invested in research and education, transformed abandoned steelworks into industrial ... across the valley's main cities remains stubbornly ...

The city of Essen ... Later I come to a sort of German industrial hall of fame. The Ruhr region was the Silicon Valley of its day, memorialized here by a double life-size statue of Alfred Krupp ...

When the Tetraeder was built in 1994, many residents of Bottrop, a post-industrial city in western Germany ... coal mines that once dotted Germany’s Ruhr region, the Zollverein Coal Mine ...

In March, I traveled to Germany’s Ruhr Valley (Ruhrgebiet ... magnificent views of the active industrial sites, open spaces and small skylines of cities that populate the region.

For 155 years, Bottrop was a coal town in the industrial Ruhr Valley. Now, the mine is history, but the city is taking the end of this era in stride. Carsten Grün reports on why Bottrop is ...

In books, paintings and plays of social protest, the Ruhr Valley was long pictured as a ... The world’s greatest industrial workshop now seeks help because it is fighting to change, modernize ...

Two hundred years ago, Friedrich Krupp opened a steel foundry in the Ruhr Valley, laying the cornerstone for a legendary industrial empire ... He arrived in the Ruhr city around 1587 and ...

A city's industrial past can leave unsettling imprints ... of those who daydream about an unpromising past. Take the Ruhr valley, Germany's most populated urban area, and Europe's largest ...

Ruhr poverty on the rise Gütersloh - one of many mid-size cities in Germany’s industrial heartland - was chosen as the site of the research release to highlight the rising poverty in the region.