A revival of the rural regions needs programmatic content, how the empty and desolate city centers and villages are to be filled with life again. Sustainable ideas for your renaissance can only be developed and tackled together with the residents. More and more villages and towns no longer have a centre, life takes place on the outskirts. This donut effect is not only ruining cities for future generations: public meeting places are losing their meaning and places their identity and attractiveness. Courageous actors from politics, administration, business and civil society who are willing to think and implement new things in a participatory way with the citizens are needed to counteract the continuing silence of the town and village centres. The question arises as to how the desolate center can be filled with life again. The central aspects for this are to be developed in a mutually supporting network: New forms of housing, communal meeting places for social cohesion, local supply of goods and culture, networked and flexibly usable mobility and an economy that sets regional and innovative impulses. These are major issues that require sustainable answers in order to achieve the vital diversification for the country: a diversity of young and old, of families and singles, of social milieus and cultural ideas.