| Description |
382 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
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Contents note continued: A conversation between Saskia Sassen and Philipp Oswalt -- Which Legal Conditions Are Required for Temporary Use? -- A conversation between Rudolf Schafer and Urban Catalyst -- Cultural Generators Arnold Reijndorp -- Art Within the Urban Realm Claudia Buttner -- Everyday Urbanism Margaret Crawford -- "Don't Obsess about Permanence..." -- A conversation between Margaret Crawford and Tobias Armborst -- Open Planning Urban Catalyst with Jesko Fezer -- Digital Urbanity -- A conversation between Aram Bartholl and Philipp Oswalt -- Cultivating Temporary Use -- Tools -- What Is to Be Done? -- Strategies for Action -- Enable -- Einfach Mehrfach, Vienna Michael Mellauner -- HausHalten e.V., Leipzig -- Initiate -- nt*areal, Basel -- Spitalfield Market, London Cordelia Polinna -- Claim -- Park Fiction, Hamburg Wanda Wieczorek -- Zwischenpalastnutzung, Berlin -- Coach -- Campo Boario, Rome -- Salbke District Library, Magdeburg Stefan Rettich -- Formalize -- |
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Contents note continued: Arena, Berlin -- Fusion, Muritz Nina Brodowski -- Exploit -- NDSM, Amsterdam -- Guerrilla Stores Friedrich von Borries -- Towards a User-Based Urbanism |
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Machine generated contents note: Patterns Of The Unplanned -- Typology of Temporary Use -- Stand-in: Berlin-Mitte Public Golf Center, Berlin -- Free-flow: Club WMF, Berlin -- Impulse: Art Park East, Munich -- Consolidation: Cable Factory, Helsinki -- Co-existence: Black Canal, Berlin -- Parasite: Disused electrical equipment collectors, Berlin -- Pioneer: Arizona Market, Belgrade -- Subversion: Freedom Camp, Kiev -- Displacement: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam -- Patterns of the Unplanned -- Claiming a No Man's Land: Arizona in Bosnia Azra Aksamija -- Start-up Incubator: The Haus des Lehrers, Berlin Jurij von Ortenberg -- Urban Centre Reloaded: Subculture in Manchester's City Centre Kevin Ward -- What City Planners Can Learn from Temporary Users Peter Arlt -- The Economy of Temporary Use Rudolf Kohoutek, Christa Kamleithner -- Potentials Of The Informal -- The Informal Economy Saskia Sassen -- Informal Economies and Cultures in Global Cities -- |
| Summary |
In many cities, urban wastelands and vacant structures suddenly metamorphose in exuberant places. After city planners and the real estate market have failed in their initial attempts to develop them, these sites become the setting for clubs and bars, start-up firms and art galleries, migrant economies and informal markets, recreational activities and nightlife. Indeed, it is often precisely here that innovative cultural production and a vibrant public sphere are to be found. The Urban Catalyst research team explored these unplanned temporary uses in five European countries over the course of several years, and did far more than merely analyze their hidden logic. Building on the team's own participation in a number of different projects, Urban Catalyst examines various ways in which city planning can incorporate informal processes and describes important lessons architects and city planners can learn from temporary users. Included are seminal contributions by Azra Akšamija, Kees Christiaanse, Margaret Crawford, Jesko Fezer, Florian Rötzer, Saskia Sassen, and others, as well as key projects from European cities such as Amsterdam, Basel, Berlin, London, Rome and Zagreb |
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Architecture -- Europe.
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City planning -- Europe.
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Public spaces -- Europe.
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| Author |
Misselwitz, Philipp, 1974-
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Overmeyer, Klaus.
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| ISBN |
3869222611 (hbk.) |
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9783869222615 (hbk.) |
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