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Presentation / Richard Sennett -- Introduction: Ephemeral urbanism: cities in constant flux / Rahul Mehrotra & Felipe Vera -- Taxonomies -- Ephemeral landscapes of Celebration -- Ephemeral landscapes of transaction -- Ephemeral landscapes of extraction -- Ephemeral landscapes of regugee -- Ephemeral landscapes of military -- Ephemeral landscapes of religion -- Ephemeral landscapes of disaster -- Afterword / Ricky Burdett

Urbane Lebensräume sind heutzutage mit stetig wachsender Mobilität, wiederkehrenden wirtschaftlichen Krisen und Naturkatastrophen konfrontiert. Als Antwort darauf haben sich in der Stadtplanung neue hybride Formen entwickelt, die über traditionelle Verfahren hinausgehen. Durch die Einbeziehung von Methoden aus anderen Disziplinen ist die Planungspraxis zunehmend komplexer geworden und auf Impulse durch Informationen, Ideen und Maßnahmen aus verschiedensten Wirtschaftssystemen, Gesellschaften und geografischen Räumen angewiesen. -- Die reich bebilderte Essaysammlung bietet eine umfassende Einführung in neue Ansätze der Stadtplanung weltweit mit Fallstudien aus demografisch, politisch, kulturell und sozial sehr diversen Regionen wie Mittel- und Südamerika, Europa, dem Nahen Osten und Ostasien. Neben konventionellen Planungsmethoden stellt der Band experimentelle und interdisziplinäre Ansätze der Stadtplanung vor.

"The Kumbh Mela is a Hindu religious fair that occurs every twelve years at the confluence of the Ganga and Yamuna rivers on the plains of northern India. ... The most recent observance of the festival took place from January 14 to March 10, 2013 in Allahabad, with an estimated attendance of seventy million people. Due to its size and complexity, the 2013 Kumbh Mela inspired interdisciplinary research in a number of complementary fields at Harvard University, including business, technology and communications, urban studies and design, religious and cultural studies, and public health."--

Latin American cities have always been characterized by a strong tension between what is vaguely described as their formal and informal dimensions. However, the terms formal and informal refer not only to the physical aspect of cities but also to their entire socio-political fabric. Informal cities and settlements exceed the structures of order, control and homogeneity that one expects to find in a formal city; therefore the contributors to this volume - from such disciplines as architecture, urban planning, anthropology, urban design, cultural and urban studies and sociology - focus on alternative methods of analysis in order to study the phenomenon of urban informality. This book provides a thorough review of the work that is currently being carried out by scholars, practitioners and governmental institutions, in and outside Latin America, on the question of informal cities

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INDEX -- Contents -- Introduction -- Introductory Interview: Returning to the Roots -- Initial Thoughts: Make the Invisible Visible -- Foreword: The Community -- Editorial An Urban Trend: Residents Taking Ownership of their Environment -- Five Cities -- Introduction to Five Cities -- Mumbai -- São Paulo -- Istanbul -- Mexico City -- Cape Town -- Common Points -- Four Interviews: Five Cities, One Gaze -- The Significance of Space in Urban Society -- Reporting from Local Initiatives -- Cities are an Expression of Human Needs -- Focus on Results: Attention to Real Needs -- Project Categories, Programs and Common Clouds -- Final Considerations -- Credits -- IMPRINT