Urban Pioneers

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ISBN: 9783939633280
German with English summaries edition
Jovis Verlag
Softcover with flaps, 192 pages
21 x 27,7 cm
colour
October 2011
€26,41 (excl. VAT)

Urban Pioneers

Temporary Use and Urban Development in Berlin

Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung Berlin Ed(s)

Skateparks in abandoned industrial estates, ponies grazing alongside the former Berlin Wall, flea markets in disused warehouses, music and fashion in hard-to-let stores and climbing walls in development niches–scarcely a city in Europe has been so radically characterized by temporary use projects as has Berlin.

Temporary use projects are increasingly of strategic importance for urban development, for space pioneers open up new development prospects at disused sites that defy the traditional urban planning. Combining a documentation of over 40 temporary use projects in Berlin with a series of essays and interviews, this book offers comprehensive insight into current discourse and proposes new guidelines for how temporary use projects might shape urban development.

Please note: This publication is only available in German with English summaries.