Refine
Document Type
- Doctoral Thesis (29)
- Article (11)
- Other (8)
- Master's Thesis (6)
- Bachelor Thesis (3)
- Working Paper (3)
- Book (2)
- Preprint (2)
- Report (2)
- Review (2)
Institute
- Institut für Europäische Urbanistik (71) (remove)
Keywords
- Stadtplanung (11)
- Stadtforschung (6)
- Gemeinwohl (5)
- Stadt (5)
- China (4)
- Soziale Bewegung (4)
- Stadtentwicklung (4)
- Zivilgesellschaft (4)
- Öffentlicher Raum (4)
- Architektur (3)
Die vorliegende Dissertation zeigt am Beispiel der Entwicklung eines modernen geriatrischen Zentrums, dass Architektur einen eigenständigen Beitrag dazu leisten kann, die Probleme des Alters in der heutigen Gesellschaft anzunehmen und zu bewältigen. Die Arbeit setzt zum einen an stadtplanerischen Defiziten der vergangenen Jahrzehnte an und verdeutlicht, wie ein bedürfnisgerechtes, innerstädtisches geriatrisches Zentrum dem Leitbild der „humanen Stadt“ zu entsprechen vermag, um damit die Stadt wieder zu einem multifunktionalen Erlebnisraum für alle Bevölkerungsgruppen werden zu lassen. Zum anderen greift sie die aktuelle gesundheitspolitische Debatte auf und weist nach, dass ein solches Zentrum als integrierte Verbundlösung, die alle Versorgungsstrukturen unter einem Dach anbietet, ideal dazu geeignet ist, die Anforderungen unserer Zeit auf geriatrischem und pflegerischem Gebiet zu erfüllen. Die Anforderungen an eine derartige Einrichtung sind umfangreich und differenziert. Sie werden unter Heranziehung aktueller Forschungsergebnisse aus stadtsoziologischer, psychologischer, gerontologischer und sozialökologischer Sicht hergeleitet und in praktische architektonische bzw. baukonstruktive Handlungsanweisungen umgesetzt. Als zentrale, übergeordnete Anforderungen neben optimaler medizinischer und pflegerischer Betreuung werden herausgearbeitet: 1. Erhöhung der Lebenszufriedenheit der Bewohner 2. Stärkung der Autonomie und Selbstständigkeit der älteren Menschen 3. Befolgung des Grundsatzes >Prävention vor Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation vor Pflege< 4. Förderung eines selbstbestimmten Lebens in vertrauter Umgebung bis ins hohe Alter 5. Gewährung von Geborgenheits- und Heimatgefühlen 6. Gemeinwesenorientierung und enge Anbindung an die Strukturen des Quartiers 7. Erhaltung bzw. Stärkung der sozialen Integration der älteren und kranken Menschen 8. Förderung eines hohen Aktivitätsniveaus und einer anspruchsvollen Freizeitgestaltung 9. Bereitstellung einer anregenden sowie sicheren, weil Orientierung gebenden Umgebung Das vorgestellte geriatrische Zentrum bildet die architektonische Entsprechung zum gesellschaftlichen Strukturwandel des Alters und zu den gesundheits- und pflegepolitischen Entwicklungen unserer Zeit und leistet damit einen eigenständigen Beitrag, die gesundheitlichen und sozialen Probleme alter Menschen in unserer Gesellschaft zu lindern, in dem nutzerorientierte Gebäudestrukturen geschaffen werden, die einem integrativen Netzwerk aus Wohn-, Therapie- und Pflegeformen Raum geben. Damit steht das geriatrische Zentrum beispielhaft für eine Architektur, die stets von den Bedürfnissen der Menschen ausgeht und mit baulichen Lösungen auf die sozialen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit reagiert.
Dieser Handlungsleitfaden möchte die gemeinwohlorientierte Vergabe von Räumen und Flächen an zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen stärken. Er ist als Inspirationssammlung zu verstehen, die den Weg zu neuen Kooperationen zwischen öffentlichen und zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren erleichtern soll. Wissenswertesund inspirierende Beispiele bieten eine Starthilfe, um nicht nur einzelne stadträumliche Experimente zu wagen, sondern die gemeinwohlorientierte Flächen- und Raumvergabe an zivilgesellschaftliche Gruppen kommunal zu verankern. Denn öffentliche Liegenschaften sind nach vielen Jahren der Privatisierung eine rare Ressource, die umso mehr dem Gemeinwohl dienen sollte.
Die Arbeit behandelt die Geschichte der Landesplanung in Mitteldeutschland und besteht aus zwei Teilen: den Zeiträumen der 1920 und 1990 Jahre. Dabei wird die Herausbildung der Landesplanung im mitteldeutschen Industriegebiet (um Merseburg) bzw. Thüringen behandelt. Die kognitiven, institutionellen und planerischen Grundlagen der Landesplanung werden herausgearbeitet. Dabei spielen die paradigmatischen Grundlagen (Dezentralisierung) sowie die internationalen Beziehungen (insbes. zu den USA) eine besondere Rolle. Schließlich werden das Wirken von Schlüsselpersonen (u.a. Prager, Luthardt, Langen) und die Bezüge zum Bauhaus untersucht. Die Analyse des Planwerks für Mitteldeutschland (1932) wird umfassend geführt. In der Analyse der Entstehung können erste Ansätze nicht-linearer Planung herausgearbeitet werden. Der zweite Teil der Arbeit widmet sich dem Industriellen Gartenreich, einem Projekt der Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, das als Korrespondenzregion zur EXPO anerkannt worden war. Hier stehen das Gesamtkonzept, aber auch Projekte wie Ferropolis im Zentrum der Betrachtung. Die Analysen der Landesplanung werden in ihren Bezügen zur gesellschaftlichen und konkret wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung behandelt. Schließlich werden beide Entwicklungsphasen und deren landesplanerischen Resultate übergreifend bewertet und in einem Modell emergent-adaptiver Planung verortet und ein Ausblick auf die Entwicklung der Landesplanung als nicht-lineare Planung gegeben.
Rapid urbanisation that is not accompanied by socio-economic development strains the capacity of local and national governments to provide even basic services such as shelter. Informal settlements i.e. settlements not built or developed according to the formal regulations have become a solution to many urban dwellers in developing countries. In Tanzania informal settlements accommodate people from low, middle and high income groups. The study explores the nature of potentials and challenges posed by the existence of mixed socio-economic groups in informal settlements, including an assessment of what can be done to optimise utilisation of potentials and mitigation of conflicts. Using a case study strategy, the study was conducted in Dar es Salaam city focusing on Makongo mixed informal settlement.
The results show that mixed informal settlements are as a result of several factors including uncoordinated energies of people. The urban development forces that bring change in the development of the city are stronger than the public states capacity to coordinate and manage them. Informal settlements also offer user-friendly land tenure, flexibility in house construction and proximity to livelihoods. Other factors include the nature of socio-economic living patterns and extension of urban boundaries. Community members operate using social norms. Advantages of mixed informal settlements include availability of plots according to needs and affordability while a disadvantage is, people of different socio-economic groups perceive problems differently.
For policies to be effective, their formulation should be derived from what is happening on the ground i.e. addressing informal settlements according to their heterogeneity. Moreover, empowered local authorities can assist in implementing national development plans; also actors in land development including government institutions, non-governmental institutions, financial institutions, private sector, professionals, political leaders, research institutions, policy-makers and training institutions need to recognise, understand and respect each other’s roles, and pull resources together to minimise problems related to informality in land development; utilise potentials and minimise challenges in mixed informal settlements in Dar es Salaam.
Key words: Informal settlements, land development, urbanisation
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.
The evolution of urbanism under dictatorship forms the core of the current research. This thesis is part of a research network at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, which studies the 20th century's urbanism under different dictatorships. The network has provided a cross-cultural and cross-border environment and has enabled the author to communicate with other like-minded researchers. The 2015 published book of this group 'Urbanism and Dictatorship: A European Perspective' strengthens the foundation of this research's theoretical and methodological framework.
This thesis investigates urban policies and plans leading to the advancement of urbanization and the transformation of urban space in Iran during the second Pahlavi (1941-1979) when the country faced a milestone in its history: Nationalization of the Iranian oil industry. By reflecting the influence of economic and socio‐political determinants of the time on urbanism and the urbanization process, this work intends to critically trace the effect of dictatorship on evolved urbanism before and after the oil nationalization in 1951.
The research on the second Pahlavi's urbanism has been limitedly addressed and has only recently expanded. Most of the conducted studies date back to less than a decade ago and could not incorporate all the episodes of the second Pahlavi urbanism. These works have often investigated urbanism and architecture by focusing merely on the physical features and urban products in different years regardless of the importance of urbanism as a tool in the service of hegemony. In other words, the majority of the available literature does not intend to address the socio-economic and political roots of urban transformations and by questioning 'what has been built?' investigates the individual urban projects and plans designed by individual designers without interlinking these projects to the state's urban planning program and tracing the beneficiaries of those projects or questioning 'built for whom?'
Moreover, some chapters of this modern urbanism have rarely been investigated. For instance, scant research has looked into the works of foreign designers and consultants involved in the projects such as Peter Georg Ahrens or Constantinos A. Doxiadis. Similarly, the urbanism of the first decade of the second Pahlavi, including the government of Mossadegh, has mainly been overlooked.
Therefore, by critically analyzing the state's urban planning program and the process of urbanization in Iran during the second Pahlavi, this research aims to bridge the literature gap and to unravel the effect of the power structure on urban planning and products while seeking to find a pattern behind the regime's policies.
The main body of this work is concentrated on studying the history of urbanism in Iran, of which collecting data and descriptions played a crucial role. To prevent the limitations associated with singular methods, this research's methodology is based on methodological triangulation (Denzin, 2017). With the triangulation scheme, the data is gathered by combining different qualitative and quantitative methods such as the library, archival and media research, online resources, non-participatory observation, and photography. For the empirical part, the city of Tehran is selected as the case study. Moreover, individual non-structured interviews with the locals were conducted to gain more insights regarding urban projects.
Post Conflict Reconstruction is a very complex topic, whether it is to be undertaken by the Local or the International Community. The process of the Post Conflict Development is to be very hard to investigate, primarily for the combination of socio-cultural phenomena, war and political instability; having difficulties of conducting solid empirical analysis (obtaining reliable data) and dealing with war-torn communities. The multifaceted process of the reconstruction is ought to touch a lot of countries vital segments, whereas each of them requires different approach; coordination with one another; and unification in their common aim.
The emergency of the assistance programs are not equal, same as with the priority and weight when compared with each other, therefore occasionally there are programs for the success of which the other less important actions are violated or neglected.
The case is with the International Community presence ( the set up), which aside from their mission and projects, it is considered to play a very important role on the urban development of a post conflict city; the setting was never planned or considered in a holistic manner, therefore IC establishment was done ad hoc and it was guided by issues which did not help at its greatest to the urban development of the city and more over to the citizens who were most in need.
The study is about the Urban Development, due to the fact that the biggest concentration of the International Community is likely to be in the urban centers, and the experienced changes are of a much considerable magnitude. The reconstruction phase is likely to be lasting at about 10 years and more , consequently the International Community for that time being tends to be recognized as temporary citizens of the city, and it is inevitably that they will be having an impact on the urban development of the city; in that basis it is considered to be significant that the International Community Establishment/Set Up be included into the International Organizations mission and assist in the overall mission of the reconstruction.
There is a continuous exacerbation of environmental problems in big cities of today’s world, thereby, diminishing the quality of life in them. Of particular concern is the fact that today’s megacities are evolving in the developing world without corresponding growth in the economy, infrastructure and other human development indices. As urban population continues to grow in these cities of the Global South, governing institutions are usually unable to keep pace with their social responsibilities, thus, making the issue of urban governance very critical. This is because effective and efficient urban governance is highly essential for the creation, strengthening and sustenance of governing institutions.
Lagos, a mega-city of over 15.45 million people and the most populous metropolitan area on the African continent epitomizes the fundamental grave characteristics of the emerging megacities of the Global South, thereby, constituting an apt choice in understanding the emerging megacities of the next generation. Two out of every three Lagos residents live in slums and de-humanizing physical and social conditions. Many of them sleep, work, eat and cook under highway bridges, at the mercy of weather elements.
This research, therefore, evaluated urban governance through housing administration in Africa’s largest megacity. It examines the extent of housing problems in the city, the causal factors and the culpability of government agencies statutorily responsible for the provision, control and management of housing development in Lagos - the tenth largest city in the world. A representative geographic part of the city which manifests classic characteristics of slum life, listed by Mike Davis as the largest slum in Africa and the 6th largest in the world – Ajegunle - was adopted for case study. The research design combined rigorous literature search (desk research) with quantitative and, especially, qualitative approaches to data collection. The qualitative approach was more intensely adopted because government officials often respond to enquiries with ‘official answers and data’ which may not be reliable and the study had to rely on keen observation of physical traces, social interaction and personal investigation. The cross-sectional research method was adopted. Information was solicited from house-owners, building industry professionals, sociologists and officials of relevant government agencies, through research tools like questionnaires, interviews, focused group discussions and personal observations.
The analysis and discussion of these field data, in conjunction with the information from the desk research gave a better understanding of the status-quo, which informed the recommendations proposed in the dissertation for mitigating the problems. The research discovered that many of the statutory housing agencies have the capacity to effectively discharge their responsibilities. However, it was also shown that corruption and abdication of responsibilities by the staff of these agencies constitute primary causes of the chasm between the anticipated lofty outcome from the laudable building regulations/bye-laws and the appalling reality. It also discovered that lack of political will and apathy on the part of successive Governments of Lagos State to the improvement of housing conditions of the poor masses are major causes of the housing debacle in Lagos.
Several germane and realistic recommendations for redressing the situation were subsequently proffered. These include amongst others, the conduction of an accurate census for Lagos, in conjunction with credible international agencies, as a requisite basis for effective planning of any sort. The process of obtaining legal titles for land should also be made less cumbersome, while the housing administration process should be computerized; in order to reduce inter-personal contacts between applicants and government officials to the barest minimum, as a means of curbing the wide spread corruption in the system.
Die massive Neubautätigkeit in Deutschland hat die Diskussion um Baukultur wieder verstärkt angestoßen. Dabei wird der Einfluss der kommunalen Planung auf die Baugestaltung sowohl in der Öffentlichkeit als auch der Fachliteratur nur unzureichend thematisiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit von Cornelius Hutfless untersucht die Thematik am konkreten Beispiel der Weimarer Innenstadt. Hierzu wurden die neun formellen und informellen Instrumente analysiert und bewertet, mit denen die kommunale Planung in Weimar seit dem Jahr 1990 unmittelbaren Einfluss auf die Baugestaltung von Neubauprojekten genommen hat: Bebauungspläne, der Denkmalschutz, Sanierungssatzungen, Gestaltungssatzungen, Wettbewerbe, der Gestaltungsbeirat, die Bauberatung, Fachkonzepte und die Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung. Methodisch kamen die Quellenanalyse, die Fallanalyse und die Stärken-Schwächen-Analyse zum Einsatz. Die Recherchearbeit wurde durch sechs leitfadengestützte Expert*inneninterviews mit Schlüsselpersonen der Weimarer Baugestaltung ergänzt. Dieser Forschungsansatz veranschaulicht den Einfluss kommunaler Planung auf die Gestaltung von Neubauvorhaben erstmalig am Fallbeispiel einer einzelnen deutschen Stadt, indem alle angewendeten Instrumente analysiert wurden. Für Forscher*innen ermöglicht der Bezug auf ein konkretes Untersuchungsgebiet einen praxisnahen Zugang zum Thema Baugestaltung. Stadtplaner*innen veranschaulicht das Beispiel Weimar außerdem, wie umfangreich und restriktiv die kommunalen Möglichkeiten sind, auf die Baugestaltung einzuwirken. Vorbildlich im Sinne einer konsequenten Strategie der Baugestaltung sind in Weimar zum einen die strengen Festsetzungen in den Bebauungsplänen des Untersuchungsgebietes, deren Umsetzung durch die Einsetzung von Baubeiräten gesichert wird. Zum anderen ist der kommunalpolitische Rückhalt ein grundlegender Erfolgsfaktor, der u. a. den Empfehlungen des Gestaltungsbeirates Nachdruck verleiht. Zudem verfügt Weimar über eine umfangreiche Denkmalausweisung. Durch die umfassende Nutzung und Kombination der Instrumente, hat die kommunale Planung in Weimar erfolgreich einen Rahmen geschaffen, der baugestalterische Standards gewährleistet. Der Charakter der Weimarer Innenstadt konnte erhalten werden, obwohl moderne Neubauentwicklungen zugelassen wurden. Das Beispiel Weimar zeigt also, dass Baugestaltungsqualität wesentlich von dem klaren Anspruch einer Kommune nach Prozess- und Verfahrensqualität abhängt. Verbesserungswürdig ist in Weimar hingegen die Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung bei Gestaltungsfragen. Schon vor der Schaffung planungsrechtlicher Tatsachen sollte zukünftig die Öffentlichkeit umfangreicher in Baugestaltungsprozesse eingebunden und dafür die Möglichkeiten ergänzender, informeller Verfahren ausgeschöpft werden. Nur dann ist eine restriktive Stadtgestaltungspolitik, im Sinne der Wahrung öffentlicher Interessen ganzheitlich positiv zu bewerten.
Ausgezeichnet mit dem Hochschulpreis der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar 2018
Die Dissertation Staubaufwirbeln oder die Kunst der Partizipation stellt die Frage, ob und inwiefern künstlerische Interventionen zur Aktualisierung und Entwicklung demokratischer Teilhabe beitragen können. Im Zentrum der Untersuchung stehen sechs Projektgruppen, die experimentelle Freiräume gestalten, in denen neue Formen von Demokratielernen, Stadtnutzung, gesellschaftlicher Repräsentation und Symbolpolitik erprobt werden. Die Kunst der Partizipation wird in fünf Dimensionen beschrieben: Initiative, Kollektivität, Inszenierung, Öffentlichkeit und Kooperation. Sie erweitert damit das Repertoire demokratischer Beteiligungsformen sowie gegenwärtige Kunstbegriffe. Ihre heimliche Relevanz besteht darin, sich immer wieder dem Risiko auszusetzen, von allen Seiten als unzureichend betrachtet zu werden. Demokratie konstituiert sich hier als ästhetische Erfahrung. Die Kunst besteht darin, die Flüchtigkeit demokratischer Teilhabe erfahrbar zu machen, also gestaltbar und veränderbar.
Spätestens seit dem Herbst 2015, als fluchtbedingte Migration nach Europa und Deutschland sich immens verstärkte, ist das Thema Flucht im öffentlichen Diskurs omnipräsent. Auch in der Forschung findet die Thematik in den letzten Jahren wieder mehr Beachtung. Wenig betrachtet wird bisher jedoch die Schnittstelle von Stadt- und Migrationsforschung, insbesondere in Bezug auf den öffentlichen Raum und geschlechtsspezifische Eigenheiten, die dabei zum Tragen kommen.
An dieser Stelle knüpft die Arbeit an und versucht sich der Thematik über die Frage „Wie nutzen geflüchtete Frauen öffentliche Räume in der Stadt und wie nehmen sie diese wahr?“ anzunähern. Dafür wird zunächst aus soziologischer und raumtheoretischer Perspektive der Einfluss von Machtmechanismen, weiblicher Identität und Migrations- bzw. Fluchthintergrund auf die Wahrnehmung und Nutzung von Raum betrachtet. Anschließend wird mit Hilfe von qualitativen Expertinnen-Interviews sowie in Zusammenarbeit mit geflüchteten Frauen unter Anwendung der Methode der Mental-Maps und deren Auswertung am Beispiel von Weimar untersucht, welchen Stellenwert öffentlicher Raum im Alltag der Frauen einnimmt und wie dieser perzipiert wird. Hierbei stellt sich heraus, dass öffentliche Räume für die betrachtete Zielgruppe keine wesentliche Bedeutung haben und ihr Fokus vielmehr auf halbprivaten institutionalisierten Räumen liegt. Inwieweit dies eine Besonderheit für die Gruppe geflüchteter Frauen darstellt, könnte im Abgleich mit anderen Zielgruppen in weiteren Untersuchungen betrachtet werden.
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.
Contemporary planning practice is often criticized as too design-driven with a lack of both quantitative evaluation criteria and employment of models that anticipate the self-organizational forces shaping cities, resulting in significant gaps between plan and reality.
This study aims to introduce a modular toolbox prototype for spatial-analysis in data-poor environments. It is proposed to integrate designing, evaluation, and monitoring of urban development into one framework, thus supporting data-driven, on-demand urban design, and planning processes.
The proposed framework’s value will exemplarily be tested, focussing on the analysis and simulation of spatiotemporal growth trajectories taking the Lanzhou New Area as a case-study - a large scale new town project that struggles to attract residents and businesses.
Conducted analysis suggests that more attention should be given to spatiotemporal development paths to ensure that cities work more efficiently throughout any stage of development. Finally, early hints on general design strategies to achieve this goal are discussed with the assistance of the proposed toolbox.
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.
Exploratory Research into Transformation Processes of Former Industrial Complexes of Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei (Leipzig) and Mattatoio di Testaccio (Rome); New Meanings of Industrial Heritage
Physical manifestations of the Industrial Revolution left a permanent imprint on the complexion of cities. Abandonment that followed the deindustrialization contributed to an estrangement, turning derelict industrial spaces and run‐down factories into a ballast to conjure with. At present, industrial heritage management applies flexibility and creativity, partially overcoming the essentially traditional paradigm of heritage preservation. This approach permits sustainable conservation – utilization and integration of disused industrial constructs in the contemporary urban landscape. Being a part of the European cultural stock, industrial heritage is an exciting and unique setting from many perspectives. It is defined and consumed by many markets, ranging from the industrial heritage tourism to the market of special events and festivals. Reused industrial buildings and factories come into view as products of post‐industrial societies, fitting to the Western post‐industrial (consumer) culture, offering a field of activities that are at an interface between the industrial history and contemporary socio‐cultural milieu.
Alteration of values, growth of new roles and definitions of industrial heritage, generated by functional restructuring, is a subject which is often left behind the general discussion about sustainable conservation and adaptive reuse of industrial heritage. Yet, in the modified state, industrial heritage is very complex to understand and to define.
By conducting a desk and a case study research of former industrial complexes – Leipziger Baumwollspinnerei and Mattatoio di Testaccio, this doctoral thesis aims to identify industrial heritage as a contemporary (post‐industrial) concept. Observation of ideas, values and definitions that emerge as a consequence of the transformation and re‐conceptualization of industrial heritage are intended to raise awareness and appreciation of industrial heritage in the full richness of its contemporary interpretation.
The Chinese Shopping Centre: Integration of a Western Commercial Format into Chinese Urban Space
(2009)
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.
Abstract
In this research, based on socio-spatiality as the starting point, it has conducted extensive city space analysis to advance a new urban social space theory. Resting upon the basis of traditional continent philosophy, this social space theory has adopted the structuration methods, at the same time trying to build certain combination between theoretical frame work establishment and empirical observations. Therefore, the socio-spatial transition study is neither a macro theory of traditional structuralism nor a typology of urban planning theory, or a positivism social geography, but an operative theory on practical purpose. Firstly, what’s distinct from the traditional structuralism is that this study examines the endless transiting structural relations, not macroscopic narrations of absolute definition and structure. In fact, any city and space are always co-existed in their structurational transiting relationship, thus research in transition has become the main body of this study. And case study is a must for research in transition, as part of efforts to apply the structuration concept into practice reason. Secondly, this study first establishes the fundamental structuration concept of socio-spatial transition, which, as an operative tool, is applied to conduct transition analysis on specific case about the City of Beijing. Therefore, as a social space theory, referring to as science, remains criticism of traditional continent philosophy. However, this criticism did not working on the level of ideology or conceptions, but on transiting under structural relations, keeping it from incompetent ideology criticism of continental critical theory. Unfortunately contemporary urban and space development have now gone extremely unbalanced under a background of globalization; yet traditional macro theories are incapable of either producing significant impact on practice or helping people identify practical problems. While facing general issues, particularly the Chinese urban issue category established on a meta-structured city mode, the micro-case study has plunged into dilemma for unknowing either to ask questions or to answer questions. Therefore, this study is set to identify dilemma and find direction for future relevant research. In this dissertation, Beijing is used as a model, and structuration methods as tools. It has extensively analyzed the social-spatial transition of the city space of Beijing, acquiring brand-new knowledge of its urban space development. It is helpful to an in-depth understanding of the city space development not only in Beijing, but also in many other cities that were influenced by the capital model of Beijing. Since the start of reform and opening-up, China has created a unique development mode of the new-styled metropolitan and urbanization in history. This research is expected to analyze or decode what China’s urban development in between communal space and associative space.
This is a work concerned with the increasing processes of social exclusion in cities nowadays. In approaching this phenomenon, the research highlights how people interact with their institutional environments. This is also, perhaps centrally, an investigation into the possibility to engage an individual perspective to understand the transformation in urban experience, which is orienting society to new uses and forms of exclusion. Following the perspective deployed by the so-called “sociology of individuals” in French sociology or “reengagement of agency” in the Anglo-Saxon world; I claim that individuals as well as collectives are gaining increasing power to question and re-organize institutions. This re-organization, in the case of socio-urban institutions, is no guarantee for major levels in integration, cohesion, and equality. Unfortunately, social institutions are becoming hard in its exclusionary capabilities under people intervention during the last four decades.
I believe that urban sociology is a field of struggle between different perspectives competing to “make sense” of social phenomena in cities. The orientation supported in this research is just one on many and it follows the roots of people and their life experiences within cities and how they influence the processes that shape the city. The last formulation is possibly not the clearest, because as we all know, references to “inhabitants” are presented in every variant of urban sociology. Nevertheless, there are not many variants focusing on peoples’ capability to influence institutional environments and by this way affecting the urban condition in which they find themselves. The particular institution selected for this study is the “School”.
This thesis is organized around two parts: part one includes the conceptual framework, methodological approach, and historical contextualization; part two describes three case studies produced to analyse the forms of and the relations between individuals and school institution. Part one starts from a premise: within the context of declining welfare State in the case of industrialized countries, an important part of urban studies focuses on economic and spatial restructuration. Confronted with the same situation, a part of social sciences shifts to the individuals’ agency and social uncertainty. This research is embedded in the last theoretical description presented above, thus, because it tries to observe urban processes from the perspective of the individual and outside of developed economies. In this sense, Latin America represents a fundamental reference because urban conditions are historically marked by weak institutional arrangements to integrating people and large levels of marginality and exclusion among population. In this scenario individuals’ practices around inclusion-exclusion have an essential meaning in everyday life.
Part two offers three study cases in which the relation between individuals and school institutions has been analyzed for the Metropolitan area of Santiago de Chile (MAS). Using different methodological resources an exhaustive account on three levels is presented: i) geo-referencing State intervention in public policies connected with neighborhood and schools to understand the form and extent of socio-urban exclusion in MAS, ii) narrative biographies applied to parents with children attending primary school, in order to reconstruct the familiar process of school selection and describing its impacts on the stabilization of school as an exclusionary device, and iii) autoethnography to describe in detail the temporal dimension involved in stabilizing actions which reinforces social mechanisms of urban integration-exclusion during the last three decades in Chile.
A key argument advanced by this research proposes that: the way in which the idea of integration is enacted by people in their biographical careers imprints changes on the institutional orientation and by this way, contributes to the reorganization urban life. The high level of social exclusion in Santiago de Chile is not accountable without considering transformation in all socio-urban institutions, especially the school. No family considers social integration with people from a low social, economical or cultural background as relevant orientation for school selection. This particularity of the Chilean social reality is not derivable from any big capitalistic or modernization processes impacting our cities.
Within the light of the thesis findings, I conclude that socio-urban institutions logics must be reassessment under the influences of people actions and representations. I also propose a consideration to major complementarities between urban studies and urban-institutions analysis. The school institutions is not just a sectorial field reserved to the researcher in education, on the contrary, it represent a key entrance to address people’s experience in their institutional urban environments. The re-emergence of social and urban movements in 2010, under the “Arab Spring” or the “Chilean Student Movements”, is not only a demonstration in the public space as result of major global trends. These situations are in essence, for this research, individuals gathering together and calling for recognition and autonomy inside institutional environment that tends to reject them. Similar situation was the focus of the Latin American urban sociology research, within the focus on grassroots and urban social movements at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s.
In both cases, socio-urban institutions, unaware of recognition requirements claimed by inhabitants, are not beyond individual or collective reach. My main concern is to show that socio-urban institutions are constantly re-shaped as a result of individual action, what makes the difference, is the spirit that we all, socially, imprint on the logics of our socio-urban institutions, moving them to inclusion or exclusion.
The thesis concerns a work of urban history intended not to describe the city but rather to interpret it. By doing so, I have interpreted the city by means of the role played by the so-called ‘great property’ in the European city-making process during the last three decades of the 20th century, specifically focused on the concrete case of military properties in Italy. I have also considered the role played by other kinds of great properties, i.e. industries and railway, which previously acted in the production of the built environment in a different way respect to the military one. As all of them have as common denominator the fact of being ‘capital in land’, I analysed great industrial and railway properties in order to extrapolate a methodology which helped me to interpret the relationship between military properties and city-making process in Europe in the late 20th century.
I have analysed the relationship between the capital in land and the city-making process on the ground of the understanding the interrelation between the great property, the urban development, and the agents involved in the urban and territorial planning. Here I have showed that urban planning is not the decisive factor influencing the citymaking process, but instead the power held by the capital in land. I have found that is the great property the trigger of the creation of new ‘areas of centrality’ intended as large areas for consumerism. As far as the role played by great property is concerned, I have also discovered that it has evolved over time. Originally, industrial and railway properties have been regenerated into a wide range of new profit-driven spaces; successively, I have found out that most of the regeneration of military premises aimed to materialise areas of centrality. The way of interpreting this factor has been based on focusing my attention on the military premises in Italy: I have classified their typology when they have been built and, most importantly, when they have been regenerated into new areas of centrality.
Stadtpolitik für alle
(2021)
Die Corona-Krise hat die Erosion städtischer Solidarität offen zu Tage treten lassen. Dagegen bringen Anton Brokow-Loga und Frank Eckardt in dieser Schrift die praktische Utopie einer solidarischen Postwachstumsstadt „auf den Punkt“.
Vom Commoning über die Umverteilung der städtischen Flächen bis zu einer sozial-ökologischen Verkehrswende: Eine progressive Stadtpolitik für alle überwindet bisheriges Schubladendenken. Sie setzt stattdessen auf heterogene Zusammenhänge und ungewöhnliche Bündnisse. Zu dem hier umrissenen Vorhaben gehört auch, eine basisdemokratisch orientierte Stadtpolitik mit dem Ziel einer umfassenden Transformation von Stadt und Gesellschaft zu verknüpfen.
Wie kann ein Blick auf die kommunale Ebene helfen, globalen Ungerechtigkeiten zu begegnen? Welchen Weg weisen munizipalistische Plattformen und Vergemeinschaftungen jenseits von Privat- oder Staatseigentum?