Shrinking Cities in Reunified East Germany

ISBN-13: 9781032322582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 232 str.

Agim Kërçuku

Opis

The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes are explored in which plans, projects, and policies have dealt with shrinkage since the 1990s.

Spis treści

List of figures. Acknowledgements. INTRODUCTION Travel journals. PART I Old problems fill new spaces. 1.1 Transformation of social mass housing. 1.2 Degrees of transformation. PART II The luxury of appropriation practices. 2.1 Temporary use of abandoned spaces. 2.2 Space for improvisation. PART III Domestication and aporias of renaturization. 3.1 The projects of the green space in the urban voids. 3.2 Perforated territories. PART IV The invention of quiet landscape. 4.1 Transformation of productive and mining territories. 4.2 A landscape between mining past and tourism future. PART V SHRINKING OF THE RIGHTS? 5.1 Demolition of residential stock and social infrastructure. 5.2 Dezentrale Konzentration. PART VI Controlled migration from the West. 6.1 Retirees and repopulation policies. 6.2 Qualified migration. Index.