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East Park / Gleisdreieck. A summer evening. Mothers ask their children to come home for supper. Bottle collectors are on their beat while an English-speaking guide illuminates a group of tourists on the significance of intercultural gardens. A crowd of mostly grey-haired Kreuzberg natives equipped with picnic baskets meets for their weekly game of bowls. The soft evening light shines through the treetops of the small birch wood. Gleisdreieck paradigmatically evokes questions about the right of partaking and participating in decision-making, ownership of urban space and about planning procedures for a city centre wasteland in a time of increasing demands for housing. This book addresses the changeful history of the site, showing in vivid images the contrasts of Berlin park life in the 21st century. Numerous interviews with activists, the creative community and planning experts allow sensitive insights into a complex microcosmos of views on »our city«. Six essays give inspiring statements on the current urban development debate. With photographs by Hans W. Mende, Lorenzo Pesce and Mario Ziegler. Andra Lichtenstein, Landschaftsarchitektin, und Flavia Alice Mameli, Produktdesignerin, sind zwei Stadtforscherinnen mit Leidenschaft für Berlin.

Cover; Table of Content; Acknowledgements; Urban Appropriation Strategies; APPROPRIATION AS A MEANS TO CREATE CITIZEN-CENTRED URBAN SPACES; Open Space Development through Appropriation. Between Imagination and Paradox; Researching the Underground; Self-Organising the Commons through the Right to the City; Mapping the Teufelsberg; APPROPRIATION OF NATURE, THE URBAN AND URBAN NATURE(S); Urban Natures of Appropriation; Flussbad Berlin; Where Context Meets Content(s); Urban Appropriation at the University; APPROPRIATION OF THE URBAN IN THE CONTEXT OF MIGRATION.

In the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a methodological rethinking for those professionals, social and natural scientists, artists, and activists, with an interest in the processes of remaking and reclaiming urban space. With a practical and empirical emphasis, this anthology brings forth a variety of perspectives on urban appropriation strategies, their relation to public space-making, and their implications for future city development, exploring how ideas and practices of appropriation inform and relate to cultural narratives, politico-historical occasions as well as socio-ecological expressions.