Urban Pioneers
Temporary Use and Urban Develpopment in Berlin


Editor: Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung Berlin
GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUMMARIES
192 Pages
with approx. 150 col. Images
Softcover with flaps
Dimensions: 21 x 27,7 cm
Euro 28.00  sFr 47.50
ISBN 978-3-939633-28-0

Date of publication: February 2007
reprinting: Oktober 2011

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Skate-parks in abandoned industrial estates, ponies grazing alongside the former Berlin Wall, flea markets in disused warehouses, music and fashion in hard-to-let stores and climbing walls in development niches – scarcely a city in Europe has been so radically characterized by temporary use projects as has Berlin. Temporary use projects are increasingly of strategicimportance for urban development, for space pioneers open up new development prospects at disused sites that defy the traditional urban planning. Combining a documentation of over 40 temporary use projects inBerlin with a series of essays and interviews, this book offers comprehensive insight into current discourse and proposes new guidelines for how temporary use projects might shape urban development.

Press:

"....With this the publication manages to lift the discussion form the mere wow a cool, trendy project to a proper discussion of urban space usage, urban redevelopment as well as local initiatives and bottom up planning and discurse. As such it can be a handbook for both planners and initiatives lead by local groups or even individuals." Fabian Neuhaus for urbantick blogspot