TY - THES A1 - Steiner, Marion T1 - Die chilenische Steckdose. Kleine Weltgeschichte der deutschen Elektrifizierung von Valparaíso und Santiago, 1880-1920 N2 - Am Beispiel der Elektrifizierung zweier Großstädte an der Westküste Südamerikas zeigt die Arbeit den globalen Einfluss deutscher Industrie- und Finanzakteure auf technische, städtebauliche und gesellschaftlich-kulturelle Entwicklungen zur Blütezeit des europäischen Imperialismus auf. Damit werden die Regionalgeschichten der chilenischen Hauptstadtregion und der Elektropolis Berlin zu einer Globalgeschichte miteinander verknüpft. Ein Hauptaugenmerk der Analyse liegt dabei auf den weltweiten Akteursnetzwerken und Machtverhältnissen sowie dem kulturellen Erbe und seiner gegenwärtigen Interpretation. N2 - Resumen. Tomando como ejemplo la electrificación de dos grandes ciudades en la costa oeste de Sudamérica, la tesis muestra la influencia global de actores industriales y financieros alemanes en el desarrollo técnico, urbano y sociocultural en el apogeo del imperialismo europeo. De esta manera, las historias regionales del centro urbano de Chile y la Electrópolis Berlín se unen para formar una historia global. El análisis se centra en las redes mundiales de actores y las relaciones de poder, así como en el patrimonio cultural y su interpretación actual. N2 - Abstract. Using the example of the electrification of two large cities on the South American west coast, the thesis shows the global influence of German industrial and financial actors on technical, urban and socio-cultural developments at the heyday of European imperialism. In this way, the regional histories of Chile’s capital region and the Elektropolis Berlin are linked to form a global history. The analysis focuses on the worldwide actor networks and power relations as well as on the cultural heritage and its current interpretation. KW - Weltgeschichte KW - Stadtforschung KW - Elektrifizierung KW - Infrastruktur KW - Kulturerbe KW - Globalgeschichte KW - Infrastrukturgeschichte KW - Valparaíso KW - Wirtschaftsimperialismus KW - Technikgeschichte KW - Industriekultur KW - Stadtentwicklung KW - Elektropolis Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20190517-39257 ER - TY - THES A1 - Brasil, Daniela T1 - EXPERIMENTING WITH THE URBAN EXPERIENCE: Rio, Lisbon and Weimar. A (re)search for creative collaborations and active exercises of citizenship N2 - 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. N2 - Esta investigação de base prática examina encontros e plataformas de base participativa como uma estratégia para criar vivências partilhadas onde novas formas de apropriação urbana possam ocorrer. Os estudos de caso selecionados propõem e iniciam certas experiências urbanas que induzem mudanças perceptivas, o intercâmbio de perspectivas e a desnaturalização de hábitos e padrões de comportamento. O trabalho sugere que, quando estas experiências são impressas na memória corporal dos participantes, estes poderão ser capacitados a ter atitudes mais ativas, creativas e/ou críticas em relação ao meio onde vivem. Buscando novos repertórios de práticas quotidianas que contestem a mercantilização do corpo e da cidade, esta tese está orientada aos processos abertos de construção de mentalidades ao invés do planejamento de alterações nas condições materiais do espaço público. São usadas formas de investigação acadêmica que dilui as fronteiras entre o debate intelectual e a prática experimental, unindo arte, urbanismo e práticas sociais numa atitude extradisciplinar (Howes 2007) em relação à cidade. Baseado em materias gerados pelos estudos de caso (combinando conhecimento teórico e sensibilidade artística), esta tese sustenta o envolvimento afetivo e corpóreo dos investigadores em situações que eles analisam e co-produzem, opondo-se assim à tradicional distância crítica acadêmica. T2 - Mit dem urbanen Erlebnis experimentieren: Rio, Lissabon und Weimar. Eine Recherche kreativer Kollaboration und aktiver Bürgerbeteiligung KW - Erlebnis KW - Kunst KW - Öffentlicher Raum KW - Stadtplanung KW - Bürgerbeteiligung KW - kollektive Kreativität KW - Extradisziplinarität KW - Stadtforschung KW - art KW - urbanism KW - public space KW - lived-experiences KW - participation KW - collaboration KW - active citizenship KW - extradisciplinarity Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20110811-15525 ER - TY - THES A1 - Schnös, Christian Emanuel T1 - Handlungsressourcen von zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren in Planungsprozessen BT - Untersucht an den Beispielen der Berliner Mauerparkserweiterung und des Baugebietes "So Berlin!", Berlin N2 - Diese Dissertation untersucht Handlungsressourcen von zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren in Planungsprozessen um innerstädtische Planungsverfahren. Den theoretischen Rahmen bilden die Kapitalarten von Pierre Bourdieu, die zusammen mit dem Matrixraum von Dieter Läpple zu einem neuen Feldbegriff des ‚Raumfeldes‘ zusammengeführt und operationalisiert wurden. Es handelt sich um eine qualitative Arbeit, die zwischen Stadtsoziologie und Urbanistik zu verorten ist. Als Fallbeispiele wurde die Erweiterung des Berliner Mauerparks sowie das Baugebiet „So! Berlin“ in Berlin gewählt. KW - Zivilgesellschaft KW - Stadtforschung KW - Empirische Sozialforschung KW - Ressourcen KW - Urbanistik KW - Beteiligungsforschung KW - Relationale Raummodelle Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220505-46346 ER - TY - THES A1 - Baron, Nicole T1 - Natural Urban Resilience: Understanding general urban resilience through Addis Ababa’s inner city N2 - This dissertation describes the urban actors and spatial practices that contribute to natural urban resilience in Addis Ababa’s inner city. Natural urban resilience is a non-strategical and bottom-up, everyday form of general urban resilience – an urban system’s ability to maintain its essential characteristics under any change. This study gains significance by exposing conceptual gaps in the current un-derstanding of general urban resilience and highlighting its unconvincing applicability to African cities. This study attains further relevance by highlighting the danger of the ongoing large-scale redevelopment of the inner city. The inner city has naturally formed, and its urban memory, spaces, and social cohesion contribute to its primarily low-income population’s resilience. This thesis argues that the inner city’s demolition poses an incalculable risk of maladaptation to future stresses and shocks for Addis Ababa. The city needs a balanced urban discourse that highlights the inner city’s qualities and suggests feasible urban transformation measures. “Natural Urban Resilience” contributes an empirical study to the debate by identifying those aspects of the inner city that contribute to general resilience and identifies feasible action areas. This study develops a qualitative research design for a single case study in Addis Ababa. The data is obtained through expert interviews, interviews with resi-dents, and the analysis of street scene photos, which are abstracted using Grounded Theory. That way, this thesis provides first-time knowledge about who and what generates urban resilience in the inner city of Addis Ababa and how. Furthermore, the study complements existing theories on general urban resilience. It provides a detailed understanding of the change mechanisms in resilience, of which it identifies four: adaptation, upgrading, mitigation, and resistance. It also adapts the adaptive cycle, a widely used concept in resilience thinking, conceptually for urban environments. The study concludes that the inner city’s continued redevelopment poses an incalculable threat to the entire city. Therefore, “Natural urban resilience” recommends carefully weighing any intervention in the inner city to promote Addis Ababa’s overall resilience. This dissertation proposes a pattern language for natural urban resilience to support these efforts and to translate the model of natural urban resilience into practice. KW - Stadtforschung KW - Urbanistik KW - Stadtsoziologie KW - Urban studies KW - Urban resilience KW - Built environment KW - Co-production KW - Grounded theory Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210428-44166 ER - TY - THES A1 - Foka, Zinovia T1 - The Space In-Between. Tracing Transformative Processes in Nicosia’s Buffer Zone. N2 - This thesis examines urban partition in Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, and how its changing roles and shifting perceptions in a post-conflict setting reflect power relations, and their constant renegotiation. Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, was officially divided in 1974 in the aftermath of an eighteen-year-long conflict between the island’s Turkish- and Greek-Cypriot communities. As a result, a heavily militarized Buffer Zone, established as an emergency measure against perpetuation of intercommunal violence, has been cutting through its historic centre ever since. This thesis departs from a genuine interest in the material and ideational dimensions of urban partition. How is it constructed, not merely in physical terms but in the minds of the societies affected by conflict? How is it established in official and everyday discourses? What kinds of mechanisms have been developed to maintain it, and make an inseparable part of the urban experience? Moreover, taking into account the consensus in relevant literature pertaining to the imperative for its removal, this thesis is inquiring into the relevance of peace agreements to overcoming urban partition. For this purpose, it also looks at narratives and practices that have attempted to contest it. The examples examined in this thesis offer pregnant analytical moments to understand Nicosia’s Buffer Zone as a dynamic social construct, accommodating multiple visions of and for the city. Its space ‘in-between’ facilitates encounters between various actors, accommodates new meanings, socio-spatial practices and diverse imaginaries. In this sense, urban partition is explored in this thesis as a phenomenon that transcends scales as well as temporalities, entwining past, present, and future. KW - Stadtforschung KW - Stadt KW - Zypern KW - urban partition KW - genealogy KW - space; power; knowledge KW - urban heritage KW - socio-spatial practices KW - Stadt / Teilung Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210531-44447 ER - TY - THES A1 - Argañaraz, Cecilia Magdalena T1 - Tiempos imaginados y espacios áridos: controversias en torno al agua en el Valle de Catamarca (siglos XIX-XX) N2 - The thesis addresses journalistic, administrative and judicial historical documentation to analyze the links between aridity and geographical imaginaries in the province of Catamarca (Argentina), from a historical point of view. The research aims to contribute to the understanding of the "non-hegemonic" versions of Modernity, its territoriality and the productions of geographic imaginaries that they involve. To provide a broad purpose, it raises as an object of study the ways in which "modern" practices, actors, links, discourses and expectations about the territory are mobilized when they are located in a space in "other" water conditions. those that are intended to "civilize" it. The general objective of the research is to analyze time-space controversies around water in the city and valley of Catamarca towards 19th and 20th centuries. The specific objectives derived are a) analyzing how various actors are related to waters behavior - in other words, the local water regime – in Catamarca and the meanings built around it. b) to analyze the controversies about the place of Catamarca and its water regime in the local and national geographic imaginary. c) analyze controversies in which the relationships between actors and materialities involved in modernization projects are put into discussion. These concerns by the experience of the actors and by the historical-spatial imagination of the territory, combined, led to the construction of an interdisciplinary methodology based on tools from anthropology, sociology, geography and history. KW - Anthologie KW - Geschichte KW - Umweltforschung KW - Stadtforschung KW - ANTROPOLOGÍA KW - HISTORIA KW - ECOLOGÍA POLÍTICA KW - ESTUDIOS URBANOS KW - HISTORIA AMBIENTAL KW - Anthology KW - History KW - Political ecology KW - urban studies KW - Environmental studies Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220803-46817 ER -