@phdthesis{Brasil2011,
  author    = {Brasil, Daniela},
  title     = {EXPERIMENTING WITH THE URBAN EXPERIENCE: Rio, Lisbon and Weimar. A (re)search for creative collaborations and active exercises of citizenship},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1456},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20110811-15525},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {This practice-based research examines platforms and encounters that have a participatory character as a strategy to create lived and shared experiences where new forms of appropriation of the city can emerge. The selected case studies propose and initiate certain urban experiences that induce changes in perception, the exchange of perspectives, and that denaturalize habits and patterns of behavior. I suggest that when these sensitive experiences become imprinted in body memory, they can empower citizens to have more active, creative, and/or critical attitudes towards their environments. Searching for new repertoires of everyday practices that contest commodification of both the body and the city, this thesis is oriented towards open-ended processes of constructing mentalities rather than those of planning changes on the material conditions of public space. It uses forms of academic investigation that merge intellectual debate and experimental practice, joining art, urbanism and social engaged practices in an extradisciplinary (Howes 2007) attitude towards the city. Based on the materials generated by the case studies (combining theoretical knowledge with artistic sensibility), the affective and corporeal involvement of researchers in the situations they analyze and co-create, is sustained in opposition to the traditional academic critical distance.},
  subject      = {Erlebnis},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Springer2008,
  author    = {Springer, Walter},
  title     = {Kunst im {\"o}ffentlichen Raum - Projektkunst und Kunstprojekte der 80er und 90er Jahre in S{\"u}ddeutschland},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1229},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20080213-12933},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {Die Dissertation setzt sich zum Ziel, mittels einer L{\"a}ngs- als auch in einer Querschnittsanalyse die f{\"u}r die 80er und 90er Jahre typischen Erscheinungen von Kunst im {\"o}ffentlichen Raum in S{\"u}ddeutschland zu untersuchen und zu bewerten. Sie besteht aus einem allgemeinen, eher theoretisch und systematisch ausgerichteten Teil, in dem die relevanten Fragestellungen in einem gr{\"o}ßeren historischen Zusammenhang entwickelt werden, sowie einer empirisch ausgerichteten Mikrostudie, um letztere am konkreten Material, also angesichts der realen Handlungen, Entscheidungen und Prozesse in einem typischen Fall zu {\"u}berpr{\"u}fen. Im Zentrum steht dabei das im Prozess der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Ort entwickelte Werk (Site Specificity) und seine Pr{\"a}sentationsform innerhalb eines meist thematisch und zeitlich eingegrenzten Projekts, dessen Teilnehmer/Werke von einer Jury ausgew{\"a}hlt und von einem Kurator zur Ausstellung geb{\"u}ndelt und unter seiner Leitung realisiert werden.},
  subject      = {Kunst},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Chen2009,
  author    = {Chen, Fang},
  title     = {The Chinese Shopping Centre: Integration of a Western Commercial Format into Chinese Urban Space},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1386},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20090525-14705},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Being transposed to China and absorbed by its urban space, the Western shopping centre undergoes a process of "Sinicisation", which turns it into a spatial hybrid: a Western retail format shaped by distinctive features of Chinese space production and space use. To a large extent, this study can be regarded as a marginal number of its kind which tries to scientifically understand the impact of a socially, culturally and economically absolutely different urban environment on the model (ideal type) of the Western shopping centre.},
  subject      = {Einkaufszentrum},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Du2010,
  author    = {Du, Juan},
  title     = {The Shaping of People's Space - An Inquiry of Human Environmental Experiences and Planning Practice, China},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.1432},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20100913-15191},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {One of the main focuses of recent Chinese urban development is the creation and retrofitting of public spaces driven by the market force and demand. However, researches concerning human and cultural influences on shaping public spaces have been scanty. There still exist many undefined ambiguous planning aspects institutionally and legislatively. This is an explanatory research to address interactions, incorporations and interrelationship between the lived environment and its peoples. It is knowledge-seeking and normative. Theoretically, public space in a Chinese context is conceptualized; empirically, a selected case is inquired. The research has unfolded a comparatively complete understanding of China's planning evolution and on-going practices. Data collection emphasizes the concept of 'people' and 'space'. First-hand data is derived from the intensive fieldwork and observatory and participatory documentations. The ample detailed authentic empirical data empowers space syntax as a strong analysis tool in decoding how human's activities influence the public space. Findings fall into two categories but interdependent. Firstly, it discloses the studied settlement as a generic, organic and incremental development model. Its growth and established environment is evolutionary and incremental, based on its intrinsic traditions, life values and available resources. As a self-sustaining settlement, it highlights certain vernacular traits of spatial development out of lifestyles and cultural practices. Its spatial articulation appears as a process parallel to socio-economic transitions. Secondly, crucial planning aspects are theoretically summarized to address the existing gap between current planning methodology and practicalities. It pinpoints several most significant and particular issues, namely, disintegrated land use system and urban planning; missing of urban design in the planning system, loss of a human-responsive environment resulted from standardized planning and under-estimation of heritage in urban development. The research challenges present Chinese planning laws and regulations through urban public space study; and pinpoints to yield certain growth leverage for planning and development. Thus, planning is able to empower inhabitants to make decisions along the process of shaping and sustaining their space. Therefore, it discusses not only legislative issues, concerning land use planning, urban design and heritage conservation. It leads to a pivotal proposal, i.e., the integration of human and their social spaces in formulating a new spatial strategy. It expects to inform policymakers of underpinning social values and cultural practices in reconfiguring postmodern Chinese spatiality. It propounds that social context endemic to communities shall be integrated as a crucial tool in spatial strategy design, hence to strengthen spatial attributes and improve life quality.},
  subject      = {{\"O}ffentlicher Raum},
  language  = {en}
}