Until 1992, Munich-Riem was where airplanes took off and landed. Moving the airport to the Erdinger Moos made it possible to realise the municipal council’s courageous decision to build a suburb named after the new trade fair: Messestadt Riem. On the 560- hectare grounds of the airport, this meant setting up trade fair facilities, employment for 13,000 people and housing for 16,000, and of course a large landscape park intended to link the new city district to the surrounding municipalities…