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Community spaces
Large housing estates of the post-war era have shaped the face of many cities throughout Europe. In the original plans of the 1950s-1980s they were to amend the urban structure and in many cases they were expected to enable a superior form of communality and urbanity. The estates were built to ease the housing shortage, but were also thought to quite literally become the home for a “new society”, be it under socialist regimes or the democratic welfare state. The reformation of society was expected to be supported by the environment of the newly built estates and, most crucially, their community spaces. The different manifestations of these community spaces were the subject of the second ...
Other spaces, plural narratives of place in Berlin's SO 36
The heightened environmental awareness that defines our contemporary urban age is both a challenge and an opportunity for urban planners and designers. In order to acquire perspective, context and leverage, city-makers must access the intangible realms of meaning to investigate the nature of social life and its relationship to space. In response to provocative spatial discourse from Lefebvre, Foucault and the Situationists International, Other Spaces, plural narratives of place in Berlin’s SO36, explores the application of theory in today’s broad and increasingly interdisciplinary planning and design practice. Deeply rooted in the philosophy of space, the concept of otherness is presente...
Architecture and the Nazi Cultural Landscape
This book traces cultural landscape as the manifestation of the state and national community under the Nazi regime, and how the Nazi era produced what could be referred to as a totalitarian cultural landscape. For the Nazi regime, cultural landscape was indeed a heritage resource, but it was much more than that: cultural landscape was the nation. The project of Nazi racial purification and cultural renewal demanded the physical reshaping and reconceptualization of the existing environment to create the so-called "new Nazi cultural landscape." One of the most important components of this was a set of monumental sites thought to embody blood and soil beliefs through the harmonious synthesis of...
The Account Books of the Reimarus Family of Hamburg, 1728-1780 (2 vols.)
In The Account Books of the Reimarus Family of Hamburg, 1728-1780, Almut Spalding and Paul S. Spalding offer a two-volume critical edition of domestic records that open windows onto early modern Europe and the Enlightenment. They detail economic realities, social circles, cultural and educational pursuits, leisure activities, religious communities, and institutions in the life of a great city and a distinguished family. Volume one consists of the transcription, with an introduction and illustrations. Volume two is an extensive index. Hermann Samuel Reimarus and his daughter Margareta Elisabeth (Elise) Reimarus carefully maintained these records over fifty years. The former was a notable classicist, biblical scholar, animal behaviorist, and freethinker; the latter, leader of a literary salon, educator, translator, and author.
Öffentliche Grünanlagen der 1950er- und 1960er-Jahre – Qualitäten neu entdecken
Der Leitfaden "Öffentliche Grünanlagen der 1950er- und 1960er-Jahre - Qualitäten neu entdecken" ist das Ergebnis eines Forschungs- und Vermittlungsprojektes zum Stadtgrün der Nachkriegsmoderne, das in den Jahren 2015 und 2016 mit Förderung der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt durchgeführt wurde. Der Bund Heimat und Umwelt in Deutschland e.V., der Arbeitskreis 'Kommunale Gartendenkmalpflege' der Deutschen Gartenamtsleiterkonferenz e.V. und das Fachgebiet Denkmalpflege der TU Berlin haben gemeinsam für die Inwertsetzung und Erhaltung von Grünflächen dieser Zeit geworben. Dieses Handbuch wurde entwickelt, um das Erkennen von typischen Gestaltungsmerkmalen zu erleichtern und sowohl Fachl...
Urban Green Spaces and Human Health
An important aspect of sustainable and regenerative urban development is to improve collective well-being standards. The United Nations endorsed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015, which establishes seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet, and improve the lives and prospects of everyone and everywhere by 2030. Urban Green Spaces have a significant impact on the living condition and public health, which are closely associated with several SDGs including good health and well-being (SDG 3), clean water and sanitation (SDG 6), industry, innovation, and infrastructure (SDG 9), and sustainable cities and communities (SDG 11). Here, the concept of One Health gains high relevance by recognizing that interconnections among humans, animals, and environment is a key issue in public health and wellbeing, that stimulates interdisciplinary collaborations to develop a more holistic understanding and effective action against public health threats.
Critical Mapping for Municipalist Mobilization
CMMM is a project that accompanied and was oriented by the priorities of municipalist activists in Belgrade, Berlin, and Barcelona. Spanning over 3.5 years from 2019 to 2023, it captured and supported the efforts of the Ministry of Space collective, AKS Gemeinwohl, Häuser Bewegen GIMA eG., Kollektiv Raumstation, and Observatori DESC to change the political paradigms shaping the contemporary housing emergency in the three cities. Coordinated by K LAB (TU Berlin) and supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the CMMM team employed various formats of critical mapping to display the legislations, policies, events, hierarchies, as well as the main actors and factors that are shaping the housing cr...
Metropolitan Research
Metropolitan research requires multidisciplinary perspectives in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines including architectural history, art history, heritage conservation, literary and cultural studies, spatial planning and planning theory, geoinformatics, urban sociology, economic geography, operations research, technology studies, transport planning, aquatic ecosystems research and urban epidemiology. It is this scope of disciplinary – and increasingly also interdisciplinary – approaches that allows metropolitan research to address recent societal challenges of urban life, such as mobility, health, diversity or sustainability.
Die Energiewende in der Wohnungswirtschaft
Die Untersuchung setzt sich mit dem Fortschritt und Hemmnissen der Energiewende in der brandenburgischen Wohnungswirtschaft, speziell den kommunal und genossenschaftlich organisierten Wohnungsunternehmen, auseinander. Nach dem Willen der Landespolitik sollen sich diese Akteure im Klimaschutz und der Energiestrategie 2030 stark engagieren. Dazu ergeben sich aus dem Einsatz erneuerbarer Energien und innovativer Energiesysteme Potentiale für den energetischen Umbau des Wohnungsbestandes, der auf gebäudeübergreifender Quartiersebene einer erweiterten planerisch-konzeptionellen Steuerung bedarf. Mit einer Onlineumfrage werden aktuelle Daten zum Sanierungsfortschritt erhoben und mittels detailr...
Wohnraum für Wohnungslose – ist Housing First die Antwort?
Als vielversprechender Ansatz der Wohnungslosenhilfe ist das ursprünglich US-amerikanische Housing First-Modell in vielen europäischen Ländern eingeführt worden. Basierend auf der Idee, dass jedem Wohnungslosen eine Wohnung zusteht und jeder – mit der entsprechenden Unterstützung – in regulärem Wohnraum untergebracht werden kann, versteht es sich als Gegenmodell zu traditionellen Ansätzen der Wohnungslosenhilfe. Diesen wird vorgeworfen ineffektiv zu sein, indem sie Wohnungslose meist jahrelang in das Hilfssystem einbinden und somit die Wohnungslosigkeit lediglich verwalten anstatt sie zu beenden. Der Housing First-Ansatz dagegen verspricht eine hohe Erfolgsquote in der dauerhaften...
