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Variations of Suburbanism
Considered to be sub-ordinated and sub-prime to the city, sub-urban areas receive little attention by researchers and designers. However, it ́s the rapidly growing areas outside the central cities that pose the biggest questions of the urban millennium: How can the scattered patchwork of urban areas and social spaces linked by networks of highways and public transportation function as a sustainable and livable urban environment? Answering this question requires understanding suburban spaces as heterogeneous urban areas with distinct local characteristics, qualities, and problems. Following this path, Variations of Suburbanism explores formation, characteristics, and trends of suburban areas all over the world. It provides insights on common features and differences of suburban governance, design, and infrastructure and discusses strategies to understand and design suburban areas in an increasingly sub-urbanizing world.
Urban Austerity
What started as a mortgage crisis in 2007 and became a global financial and economic crisis in 2008, has transformed into a sovereign debt crisis since 2010. Throughout, cities all over Europe have been at the heart of the turmoil in multiple ways: indebted homeowners have been evicted, masses impoverished, public budgets tightened, municipal infrastructures privatized, and public services downsized. In short, austerity measures have been implemented. In view of the above, this book focuses on an issue that affects most people living in urban regions across Europe: the idea that fiscal austerity is a necessity that politics cannot avoid, no matter how harsh the consequences might be. To brin...
Shrinking Cities in Reunified East Germany
The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes are explored in which plans, projects, and policies have dealt with shrinkage since the 1990s. The book is a sequence of scenes that reveals the main characteristics, dynamics, narratives, reasons and ambiguities of the shrinking cities’ transformations in the face of a long transition. The first scene concerns the demolition and transformation of social mass housing in Leinefelde-Worbis. The second scene deals with the temporary appropriation of abandoned buildings in Halle-Neustadt. The third scene, observed in Leipzig, shows the results of green space projects in urban voids. The scene of the fourth situation observes the extraordinary efforts to renaturise a mining territory in the Lausitz region. The fifth scene takes us to Hoyerswerda, where emigration and ageing process required a reduction and demolition in housing stock and social infrastructures. The border city of Görlitz, the sixth and last scene, deals with the repopulation policies that aim to attract retirees from the West.
Pragmatische Visionäre
Leitbilder stadtregionaler Planung wurden in den USA erheblich durch zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement geprägt. Diesen Akteuren gelingt es jedoch nur punktuell, die fehlende staatliche Steuerung räumlicher Entwicklung in den Metropolregionen zu kompensieren, um so Zersiedelung und sozioökonomischer Polarisierung entgegenzuwirken. Barbara Schönig untersucht die Geschichte zivilgesellschaftlicher stadtregionaler Planung und analysiert eine Fallstudie zur Regional Plan Association New York, New Jersey und Connecticut im Hinblick auf Potenziale und Ambivalenzen dieses Engagements.
Variations of Suburbanism
Considered to be sub-ordinated and sub-prime to the city, sub-urban areas receive little attention by researchers and designers. However, it's the rapidly growing areas outside the central cities that pose the biggest questions of the urban millennium: How can the scattered patchwork of urban areas and social spaces linked by networks of highways and public transportation function as a sustainable and livable urban environment? Answering this question requires understanding suburban spaces as heterogeneous urban areas with distinct local characteristics, qualities, and problems. Following this path, Variations of Suburbanism explores formation, characteristics, and trends of suburban areas all over the world. It provides insights on common features and differences of suburban governance, design, and infrastructure and discusses strategies to understand and design suburban areas in an increasingly sub-urbanizing world.
Gemeinschaftlicher Wohnungsbau
Welche Bedeutung kommt dem gemeinschaftlichen Wohnungsbau in der Stadtentwicklung und Wohnungsversorgung im transformierten Wohlfahrtsstaat zu? Am Beispiel von München und Frankfurt a.M. zeigt Carsten Praum auf, inwiefern sich in der Phase der Nach-Wohnungsgemeinnützigkeit in den wachsenden Städten Deutschlands ein System herausbildete, das sich im Zusammenspiel von gemeinschaftlichen Wohnprojekten, intermediären Organisationen sowie Stadtpolitik und -verwaltung konstituiert. Seine Analyse verdeutlicht: Das System des gemeinschaftlichen Wohnungsbaus nimmt spezifische Formen und Funktionen an, die auf die gesellschaftlichen und politischen Rahmenbedingungen des »Community-Kapitalismus« (nach van Dyk/Haubner) zurückzuführen sind.
Wohnen in Hamburg
In wohnungspolitischen Debatten dient Hamburg vielfach als bundesweites Vorbild. Dennoch ist auch hier die Lage durch kontinuierlich steigende Mieten und Preise für breite Teile der Bevölkerung prekär. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes behandeln die Situation der Wohnungsversorgung in der Hansestadt und geben einen kritischen Überblick über zentrale Akteure, Instrumente und Konfliktfelder. Aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive zeigen sie historische Entwicklungspfade sowie aktuelle Lösungsansätze auf und analysieren relevante Kontroversen. So entsteht ein informativer Überblick über die Forschung zur Hamburger Wohnungspolitik, der auch für Praktiker*innen aus Stadtplanung und Politik neue Erkenntnisse bereithält.
Das Flächensparbuch
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European Shopping Centre Architecture in France and Italy
This comparative analysis of global shopping centers provides a greater understanding of their influence on urban architecture and infrastructure. The volume identifies the essential characteristics of an efficient shopping center and their adaptation to different geographical locations, drawing a complete portrait of the shopping center sector from the perspective of architecture and urban development.
Rethinking Social Movements after '68
The year 1968 has widely been viewed as the only major watershed moment during the latter half of the twentieth century. Rethinking Social Movements after ’68 takes on this conventional approach, exploring the spaces, practices, organization, ideas and agendas of numerous activists and movements across the 1970s and 1980s. From the Maoist Communist League to the women’s movement, youth center movement, and gay liberation movement, established and emerging scholars across Europe and North America shed new light on the development of modern European popular politics and social change.
