Assemblages for Urban Transformation

Autor: Matthias Loepfe, Angelus Eisinger
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: disP - The Planning Review. 53:20-31
ISSN: 2166-8604
0251-3625
DOI: 10.1080/02513625.2017.1316526
Popis: Contemporary urban transformation is challenging current planning practice. In this article, we will address qualities and modes of how planning is able to shape instruments and processes dealing with the complex environments of contemporary urban transformation. We will do this through a retrospective analysis of a planning instrument designed to find new development paths – the instrument of test planning – and a prospective and theoretical mapping of modes of planning under conditions of urban transformation in general.In recent years the urge for novel approaches in planning has risen drastically – at least in Switzerland. Since World War II, urban development in Switzerland has evolved in three different phases: urban expansion on greenfields, the conversion of brownfields since the 1990s, and the transformation of the existing urban fabric, a period that has only just begun in recent years and is seen to be prevalent for urban development in the next decades. This new era of transformation c...
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