TY - JOUR A1 - Nogueira, Priscilla T1 - “Battlers” and their homes: About self-production of residences made by the brazilian new middle class JF - Social Inclusion N2 - The article presents preliminary results and qualitative analysis obtained from the doctoral research provisory entitled “How do Brazilian ‘battlers’ reside?”, which is in progress at the Institute for European Urban Studies, Bauhaus Univer-sity Weimar. It critically discusses the contradictions of the production of residences in Brazil made by an emerging so-cial group, lately called the Brazilian new middle class. For the last ten years, a number of government policies have provoked a general improvement of the purchasing power of the poor. Between those who completely depend on the government to survive and the upper middle class, there is a wide (about 100 million people) and economically stable lower middle group, which has found its own ways of dealing with its demand for housing. The conventional models of planning, building and buying are not suitable for their technical, financial and personal needs. Therefore, they are con-currently planners, constructors and residents, building and renovating their own properties themselves, but still with very limited education and technical knowledge and restricted access to good building materials and constructive ele-ments, formal technicians, architects or engineers. On the one hand, the result is an informal and more or less autono-mous self-production, with all sorts of technical problems and very interesting and creative spatial solutions to every-day domestic situations. On the other hand, the repercussions for urban space are questionable: although basic infrastructure conditions have improved, building densities are high and green areas are few. Lower middle class neigh-bourhoods present a restricted collective everyday life. They look like storage spaces for manpower; people who live to work in order to be able to consume—and build—what they could not before. One question is, to what extent the lat-est economic rise of Brazil has really resulted in social development for lower middle income families in the private sphere regarding their residences, and in the collective sphere, regarding the neighbourhoods they inhabit and the ur-ban space in general. KW - Brasilien KW - Wohnsitz KW - Mittelstand KW - Brazil; collective; residences; families; neighbourhoods; new middle class; private; self-production; space; urban Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170425-31568 SP - 44 EP - 61 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Koch, Florian T1 - Zwischen Transformation und Globalisierung - Immobilienmarkt und Stadtentwicklung in Warschau T1 - Real estate markets and urban development in Warsaw N2 - Nach der politischen Wende Ende der 1980er/Anfang der 1990er Jahre entwickelte sich in Warschau innerhalb kurzer Zeit ein hoch dynamischer Immobilienmarkt kapitalistischer Prägung, dessen Mechanismen grundlegende Auswirkungen auf die Stadtentwicklung Warschaus haben. Im folgenden Aufsatz werden die wesentlichen Eigenschaften des Büro- und Wohnungsmarkts aufgezeigt. Es werden für jeden Sektor die Funktionsweise, die wesentlichen Akteure der Nachfrage- und Angebotsseite, die Rolle der Institutionen und die räumlichen Konsequenzen dargestellt. KW - Immobilienmarkt KW - Warschau KW - Stadtentwicklung KW - Stadtforschung KW - Wohnungsmarkt KW - Transformation KW - Globalisierung Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20111215-7952 ER - TY - THES A1 - Jordan, Anne T1 - Ein neues Stück Paris. Planungsdiskurse, Referenzen und die Formierung eines urbanen Images im städtebaulichen Großprojekt Paris Rive Gauche T1 - A new piece of Paris. Planning discourses, references and the formation of an urban image in the urban mega-project Paris Rive Gauche. N2 - Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den diskursiven Konstruktion urbaner Images in Großprojekten. Aufbauend auf einer soziologischen Definition der Begriffe „Raumbild“ und „Ortsbild“ wird am Beispiel des städtebaulichen Großprojekts Paris Rive Gauche untersucht, wie sich ortsspezifische Referenzen in einem Planungsprozess bilden, zu welchen Zwecken sie eingesetzt werden und wie mit Hilfe dieser Referenzen im Planungsprozess diskursiv ein Image für einen entstehenden Stadtteil konstruiert wird. N2 - The work presented here deals with discursive constructions of urban images in mega-projects. Based on a sociological definition of „images of space“ and „images of place“ the process of place-specific referencing is explored, the mega-project of Paris Rive Gauche delivering the empirical backdrop and framework. Questions such as „How do references function in planning processes“ and „How do references contribute to the discursive creation of an urban image?“ are discussed in order to find out how the image of a future urban district is shaped in planning processes. KW - Paris KW - Stadtplanung KW - Großprojekt KW - Image KW - Stadtbild KW - Paris KW - urban planning KW - mega-project KW - image KW - planning discourse Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20091105-14921 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 -