Transforming cities : urban interventions in public space / Kristin Feireiss, Oliver G. Hamm (ed. = hg.) ; in co-operation with the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment, Berlin = In Kooperation mit der Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt, Berlin.

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Publication:

Berlin : Jovis, c2015.

Description:

192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Transforming cities / Regula Luscher -- Striking the right balance: new momentum for urban development / Oliver G. Hamm -- Permanent urban redevelopment / Andreas Ruby -- Pretty vacant: embracing impermanence / Lukas Feireiss -- Research-driven design / Jorg StollmannConverting urban infrastructures -- Urbanizing the periphery -- Revitalising "non-places" -- Upgrading neglected city centres -- Social projects in public space -- Educational and cultural initiatives in the city -- Improving the housing environment.
Parallel texts in English and German.

Summary:

"In certain parts of the world, the founding of new towns and extensive urban development are still going ahead rapidly at the beginning of the twenty-first century. In Europe, on the other hand, which already has a high degree of urbanization, more cautious interventions into the urban structure are required. By means of both permanent and temporary interventions, attempts are being made to meet the complex requirements of a changing modern society. The interdisciplinary cooperation of partners from different fields such as culture, architecture, and economics, and the participation and initiatives of citizens play an important role in this. This volume pursues the question of how individual projects not only stand out within the complexity of urban structures, but can also bring about long-lasting change. This book presents 47 European examples from the Urban Intervention Award Berlin that showed quite surprising solutions, and which received awards from the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment in 2010 and 2013."--Publisher description.

ISBN:

9783868593372 (pbk.)
3868593373 (pbk.)

Subject:

City planning Germany 21st century.
Cities and towns Germany Growth 21st century.
Urbanization Germany 21st century.
Villes Allemagne Croissance 21e siècle.
Urbanisation Allemagne 21e siècle.
Cities and towns Growth Germany 21st century.
Cities and towns Growth
City planning
Urbanization
Germany

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Feireiss, Kristin.
Hamm, Oliver G.
Berlin (Germany). Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Umwelt.

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Call No.: BIB 233254
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