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Book SynopsisIn recent years and decades, dealing with the architectural legacy of the industrial age has been an increasingly common task for urban planning: industrial buildings and sites, infrastructure, and residential areas that have become vacant lots as a result of structural transformation cannot, if only because of their dimensions, be ignored within the urban space. Innovative reinterpretations of such relics that update existing building fabric in a way that goes beyond critical reconstruction or revitalization, such as the Toni Site in Zurich or the Île de Nantes, can be observed throughout Europe these days. The publication urbanRESET brings together succinct examples of this separate category of urban-planning from throughout Europe. The projects are presented in detail with plans and color illustrations. Interviews with key players and theoretical essays show how local processes of reinterpretation and reactivation can produce sustainable effects. urbanRESET sheds light on the common foundations of these works and condenses them into methodological inferences for a forward-looking urban praxis.
Table of ContentsPREFACE Relaunch, reconsider, reintegrate – the logics of urbanRESET Angelus Eisinger, Nina Brodowski, Jörg Seifert POSITIONS Architectural and urban creativity between autonomy and networks Angelus Eisinger Creativity – a cultural approach Martin Heller The meaning of place and autonomy in architecture Pier Vittorio Aureli Particular scripts of reality – or: Urban planning in an uncertain world Ash Amin Creative, competitive, attractive. The city lost in transition Alain Thierstein RESET networks as knowledge networks Gernot Grabher The potentials of arts for urbanRESET processes Gesa Ziemer Preserving potentials for the future – fostering strategic oblivion Christine Dissmann CASES** 80 From milk production to knowledge production: Toni-Areal, Zurich Angelus Eisinger, Nina Brodowski, Jörg Seifert Bankside Power Station to Tate Modern Harry Gugger interviewed by Angelus Eisinger and Jörg Seifert The reborn modern Slum: middle class appropriation of social housing in London Maren Harnack Urban inititative for renewable energies: Energiebunker Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg Uli Hellweg interviewed by Jörg Seifert and Frithjof Look Pedestrian area "Praterstern", Vienna Klaus Stattmann From prisons of madness to sources of urban innovation: psychiatry areas in Milano and Triest Ingrid Breckner, Massimo Bricocoli L'Île de Nantes Alexandre Chemetoff interviewed by Angelus Eisinger and Hartmut Frank „Alter Schlachthof", Karlsruhe Martina Baum "Autostadt Wolfsburg" Frank Roost The Reininghaus case in Graz – a failed attempt Jens Dangschat interviewed by Nina Brodowski and Jörg Seifert "Urban - Wien Gürtel Plus" Silja Tillner interviewed by Nina Brodowski and Jörg Seifert "Du boulevard Périphérique au boulevard central" Pierre Alain Trévelo and Antoine Viger Kohler interviewed by Nina Brodowski and Jörg Seifert Open source urbanism – Airport "Berlin Tempelhof" Klaus Overmeyer interviewed by Angelus Eisinger and Nina Brodowski "Nordbahntrasse Wuppertal": The transformation of an abandoned transit corridor Stefanie Gernert Camillo Sitte meets Robert Venturi at Berlin Südkreuz Joachim Schultz, Jörg Sieweke Urban planning between form and performance: The Ljubljana case Markus Schäfer interviewed by Angelus Eisinger and Jörg Seifert The Olympic Legacy Masterplan, London Kees Christiaanse interviewed by Angelus Eisinger and Nina Brodowski SYNOPSIS urbanRESET processes – a comparative approach Philipp Hachenberg, Benjamin Häger, Max Leinenkugel, Lutz Schellhorn Commenting urbanRESET cases: Large buildings or small cities? Bart Lootsma Commenting urbanRESET cases: the potentials of large scale areas and drelict infrastructures Philipp Rode Considering urbanRESET criteria in planning Thomas Sieverts Creativity, context and communication – insights into urbanRESET phenomena Angelus Eisinger, Nina Brodowski, Jörg Seifert Impressum / Bildnachweis / Autoren
