Urban catalyst : the power of temporary use / Philipp Oswalt, Klaus Overmeyer, Philipp Misselwitz

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Oswalt, Philipp

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Publication details: Berlin : DOM, cop. 2013Description: 384 pISBN:

9783869222615

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. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 01366	1	Available		1900173733

Preface / Kees Christiaanse -- Introduction -- Spaces -- 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 economics and cultures in global cities / a conversaton between Saskia Sassen and Philip Oswalt ; Which legal conditions are required for temporary use? / A conversation between Rudolf Schäfer and Urban Catalyst ; Cultural generators / Arnold Reijndorp ; Art within the urban realm / Claudia Büttner ; 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 Barholl 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 ; Spitalfiels Market, London / Cordelia Polinna ; Claim: Park Fiction, Hamburg / Wanda Wieczorek ; Zwischenpalastnutzung, Berlin ; Coach: Campo Boario, Rome ; Salbke District Library, Magdeburg / Stefan Rettich ; Formalize: Arena, Berlin ; Fusion, Müritz / Nina Brodowski ; Exploit: NDSM, Amsterdam ; Guerrilla Stores / Friedrich von Borries ; Towards a User-Based Urbanism -- Contributors -- Urban Catalyst Research Partners -- Image Credits

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