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English Publication : Planetary Urbanism: The Transformative Power of Cities

 

Planetary Urbanism: The Transformative Power of Cities

© Simone Hüttenberend

Cities were always centres of innovation and the driving force of developments, throughout all epochs and cultures. The organisation of life in cities formed the starting point for the development of structures based on the division of labour and hence the release of creative potentials that benefited science, technology and the arts, for the accumulation of capital, increasing prosperity and the refinement of life. With few exceptions, cities were also the stages on which the struggles for more social equality and for societal progress played out. Cities are likely humankind’s greatest cultural achievement and, in this respect, a marker of the Anthropocene period, the geological age defined by human activity.

 

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Intro
Thomas H. Meister

Foreword: Urbanisation and Environmental Protection

The competition puts the global urbanisation process into the context of social, ecological and economic questions, it provides an exceptional platform to develop diverse ideas and solutions for urgent questions. The increasingly significant medium of information design, also crucial in political education, helps to convey complex circumstances in an understandable way.
Editorial
Sabine Kraft, Anna Aichinger, Zhen Zhang

The Transformative Powers of the Cities

Leseprobe
“The 21st century will be the century of cities: Urban environments will become the main organisational form for almost all human societies” and almost all the future issues of humanity will be decided in the cities. The unstoppable progress of global urbanisation however raises more questions than we can currently answer.
Diagram
Simone Hüttenberend

Map of Published Projects

Essay
Sabine Kraft

The Future will be Decided in the Cities

Leseprobe
We are living in an age of radical change characterised by the interleaving and rapid development of two processes in particular. As such, the unstoppable process of urbanisation corresponds with the unstoppable process of the digitalisation of all functional aspects and spheres of life.
Essay
David Harvey

The Right to the City

That collective right, as both a working slogan and a political ideal, brings us back to the age-old question of who it is that commands the inner connection between urbanization and surplus production and use. Perhaps, after all, Lefebvre was right, more than forty years ago, to insist that the revolution in our times has to be urban – or nothing.
Diagram
Simone Hüttenberend

World Map of Urbanisation

Essay
Christian Schmid

Planetary Urbanisation: Henry Lefebvre and the Right to the City

In his analysis, urban society is not an already achieved reality, but a potential, an open horizon. The quality of this analysis is that it transcends mere criticisms of urbanization, and proceeds to explore its inherent possibilities and potentials. However, they can only be realized through a fundamental social transformation − an urban revolution.
Essay
WBGU

The Century of Transition

Nothing stands still on our planet any more, and above all, hardly anyone stays in the same place. In the Europe of the 19th century, many people who first saw the light of the world in their parents’ home were also laid to rest there. Today, however, anyone who grows up in a residential block, hut or villa is highly unlikely to die there.

I LOCAL EFFECTS OF GLOBALISATION

Chapter
Case Study
Sarah Ann Sutter, Wolfgang Gruber, Carolin Lahode, Ina Nikolova

The Kings Giants

The giant trees of Stuttgart represent a unique urban phenomenon. Apart from the fact, that the import of giant trees can be understood as an event of migration, it is the exceptions which lend a city its particularity in our globalised world, where cities become more and more alike.
Case Study
Ira Leifried, Louisa Höppner

The Promised Land

The project aims at raising awareness of environmental degradation due to palm oil production in tropical rain forests against the background of worldwide palm oil consumption through supermarket products and responsibility of consumers.
Case Study
Elizabeth Yarina

New Tribal Territories

The project conceives of alternative modes of modernisation that create a dialogue between local and global economies and ways of life. Through deforestation and increased agricultural productivity, Adivasi are to take back control over their territories.
Case Study
Ben De Nardi, Michael Davis, Linus Tan, Michael Maginness, Peter Raisbeck, Peter Hogg, Linda Kennedy

Pilbara – Country, Colony and Urbanisation

Through the decoupling of the site from the global networks of iron ore extraction, it constitutes a semi-closed system, which cooperates with other similarly occupied degraded landscapes in the region and thus establishes relationships not based on the exploitation of resources and labour power, but on mutual respect and cooperation.
Case Study
Jacob Mitchell, Xuan Kuai, Justine Holzman, Karen May, Giovanni Coakley, Chris He, Sean Williams, Maureen Jackson, Madeline Richard, Sarah Schramm, Jeff Carney

New Orleans – Port City to Global Hinterland

The social-political economy of shipbreaking is complex and highlights conflicting interests, especially for a developing economy like India. In India, by recognizing shipbreaking as an industry, the state has given clear indication that it recognizes the economic importance of the shipbreaking.
Case Study
Aditya Barve

Urbanism of Disassembly

The social-political economy of shipbreaking is complex and highlights conflicting interests, especially for a developing economy like India. In India, by recognizing shipbreaking as an industry, the state has given clear indication that it recognizes the economic importance of the shipbreaking.
Case Study
Leon Schubert, Yasin Altunok, Khaliun Aldar

Global Urban Culture

For participants in the globalizing process, geographical distance is no longer a barrier – goods would appear wherever in demand. However, some goods exceed their usual biography of being exported, imported, and consumed; instead they are artifacts of cultures being transplanted, exercising long lasting and wide-ranging chain effects on localities and identities.
Case Study
Cornelius Hirsch, Felix von der Weppen, Cecil von Treu

The Rush on Foreign Land

Local Effects of Globalisation

II THE INTERCONNECTED CITY

Chapter
Case Study
Eva Eiling, Britta Feemers, Sophia Pafitis

City Update

“City Update” attempts to trace effects of digital technologies on personal everyday lives in cities, and provides information on use patterns of online social networks and online shopping in particular.
Case Study
Pengfeng Chen, Zi Li, Yuefan Kuang

E-Commerce in Rural China

The scale of spatial and social disparity between urban and rural China is no second to any other country in the world.
Case Study
Sheila Seyfert-Menzel, Katalin Gennburg

Anti-Pack-Aging

We are facing a new mode of consumption and circulation of products: online trade. Internet shopping is a global and increasingly transnational phenomenon.
Case Study
Adrian Lorenzo Alfonso, Mary Pearl Robles

Manila – Ground Constellations

Travelling from point A to point B could be as simple as crossing a street, taking a bus to school, or driving one’s car to work. But in between points A and B is the city, with all its complexities.
Case Study
Natalija Paunic, Aleksandar Bursac

Syrbia

The material seems to trace the immaterial, so that new forms of ephemeral architecture and hybrid urban typologies can emerge, the melting together of place, data space and physiology into a digital-actual mixture observable as a corporeal imprinting of the virtual environments into the physical space that we inhabit.
Case Study
Ivo Pekec, Fereshteh Assadzadeh

Subversive Tehran

In “Subversive Tehran”, people manage to interact and maybe gradually collectively unveil the repressive veil that has been put over their city.
Case Study
Curie Kure, Hanna Biresch

Just Trust Us – or Take This

Information and transparency sensitises citizens to topics such as data acquisition and data trade. With this in mind: have fun and “Sapere aude!”
Fallstudie
Martin Dumont, Metaxia Markaki, Nitin Bathla, Alexander Daxböck

The Architecture of the Grid

The physical networks depicted in this study call for an alternative way of looking at the urban, one which goes beyond urbanrural dichotomies and propagates a global urbanisation feeding off continuous energy networks.
Case Study
Maximilian Pecher, Philipp Schwarzbauer

United Regions of Europe

Will urbanisation create a Europe with swelling, centralised urban clusters and competing states, or a post-national Europe, where a new kind of interconnectedness enables a multipolar urban development, attuned to regional circumstances? The decision is ultimately a political one.

III INFORMAL VS REGULATED

Chapter
Project
Habitat Forum Berlin, Elisa Bertuzzo, Günter Nest

Manifesto of the 21st Centuryʼs Own Settlement Form

Barbarism lurks in the very concept of culture – as the concept of a fund of values which is considered independent, not, indeed, of the production process in which these values originated, but of the one in which they survive. Walter Benjamin, 1937
Project
Günter Nest, Elisa Bertuzzo, Louisa Scherer, Marcus Jeutner, Paul Klever, Anna Sauter, Marian Knop, Lisa Lampe, Tamanna Siddiqui, Farhana Kaniz Sharna, Abdul Kader Khan Komol

Information Overload

In the course of one decade, house production has become a matter for trained builders, carpenters and even masons, involved in the construction of meanwhile common brick-and-corrugated-iron one storey-house forms.
Essay
Elisa Bertuzzo

On the Myth of Informal Urbanisation: Karail Basti, Dhaka

It’s still there. Karail Basti lives on, despite everything – despite the major incidents, like the bulldozer operation of 2012 in which 4,000 people were made homeless because a road had to be widened, and the minor ones, such as last week’s fire, caused by a faulty gas line, which affected 22 dwellings.
Case Study
Rainer Hehl, Marc Angélil, Something Fantastic

Cidade de Deus – A Biography

In March 1961, US president John F. Kennedy announced the Alliance for Progress program as “a vast cooperative effort, unparalleled in magnitude and nobility of purpose” to promote economic growth and political reform in Latin America.
Case Study
Patricia Caldas Torres, Edith Aranda Dioses, Paula Kapstein Lopez, Mariel Valdivia Lopez

Lima: Co-Produced City

In this way, the formal and informal players might finally team up, together creating a “co-produced city”.
Project
Olivia Grandi

Artificial Reef

Since the nineties, a completely new and unprecedented urban landscape has come into being as a product of the new booming economy in the Indian city of Bangalore, partly due to its fast growing IT branch.

IV NEOLIBERAL URBAN POLICY

Chapter
Case Study
Marcela Lopez, Miodrag Kuc, Juan Esteban Naranjo

Medellín – Human Right on Water

The recent transformation of EPM is a well-suited case study to document how water circulation in lowincome households has shifted from a continuous flow to a prepaid drop. Here is where our story begins.
Case Study
Maximilian Pecher

Berlin for Sale

With sales valued at more than 3 million euros the federal state parliament serves as a second cog that co-determines the selling process. The population itself has no direct influence on the proceedings.
Diagram
Diana Felber, Michael Wicke, Arne Schmitt

Dwellings

Case Study
Dominik Rau

Buy Buy B€rlin

The capital pressure on inner-city areas is higher in Berlin than in any other German city.
Project
Andreas Lang, Simon Delbeck, Evgeniya Panova, Marina Petrova

Istanbul – Great City Life

Tarlabaşi, a historical low-income neighbourhood in the heart of Istanbul, is less than a five-minute walk away from the illustrious Istiklal Caddesi shopping street. Its inhabitants have to cope with high crime rates, illegal trade and prostitution and a highly dilapidated building mass.
Case Study
Quynh Doan Truc, Tan Nguyen Minh, Tri Hua Tran Minh, Hien Dang The, Duong Nguyen Dinh Que, Phuc Nguyen Vinh, Tay Ho Son

Citizen Rights in Planning

Metropolises like Tokyo, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Bangkok form the heart of East and Southeast Asia’s new economic life. Other potential areas strive to become the next international economic center.
Case Study
Nina Schengber, Madeline Rasche, Sven Hendrik Olde, Monika Paul

Gated Communities

The first gated community goes back to 1857. It was established in New Jersey, USA. Ever since, their number has been increasing continuously.
Case Study
David Stephens, Alessia De Simone, Ke Xie

Urban Exile

By means of the cities of Atlanta, USA, Naples, Italy, and Hong Kong, China, the displacement of low-income population strata from preferred urban locations is described in global comparison.
Project
Gerrit Hoffschulte

Motion Poster: Angry

The project title “Angry99” hints at the slogan of the Occupy Wall Street movement – “We are the 99%” – and discusses society’s anger towards the greed of a few, culminating in the Occupy-movement’s world-wide demonstrations and camps.
Case Study
Indre Grumbinaite, Safak Korkut, Nicole Lachenmeier, Darjan Hill

World Metropols: About Wages and Prices

Cities are focal points for social developments and control systems for social order – also regarding the wages paid to the workforces. The unabated allure of the cities is due not least to the fact that compared with rural areas, they offer their inhabitants a wealth of financial opportunities.

V URBAN METABOLISM

Chapter
Case Study
Vanessa Lang, Daniel Grasmeier, Sascha Hermanns

Where there is Light, there is Shadow

Light pollution is one of the biggest problems of the present and it has a deeper impact than one might think. Nowadays, a city counting over 500,000 inhabitants is exposed to a continuous light pollution of at least 60%.
Case Study
Olga Schweigert

Diagnosis City

Millions of people are moving from rural areas to the cities – for good reasons. It is in the city that one finds good professional prospects and a vibrant way of living. Still, the urban home has its shady side.
Case Study
Tobias Hahn

Urban Mining

Despite major efforts to innovate recycling technologies, the question remains whether a circular economy and industrial production are compatible at all.
Project
Angela Million, Grit Bürgow, Tim Nebert, Anja Steglich, Jürgen Höfler , Andreas Brück

Securing Water for Food

The question is whether this waterfarm technology approach can be successfully adapted to western metropolises meeting 21st century needs, their urban development and design, and their urban ways of life.
Case Study
Antje Bruns, Richard Appiah Otoo, Felipe Coelho Costa, Lara Bartels, Emily Raab, Fanny Frick, Rossella Alba, Lilian Stathogiannoopoulou,, Sarah Costa, Daniel von Pazatka Lipinski, Sophia Wulf, Cyrus Khazaeli

The Water Issues of Accra

Ensuring the sustainability of the urban water metabolism represents a fundamental challenge for the 21st century and the whole Anthropocene period. Rapidly increasing land, food, energy and freshwater demand drives regional land cover and land use change with global consequences that are distributed unevenly across the planet.
Case Study
Bhawna Welturkar

Sanitation in India

Such self-sustaining systems call for a context-sensitive, decentralised mode of planning, with each measure developed in respect to local specificities.
Case Study
Luna Khirfan, Mandy Zhang

Climate Change Adaptation in Tobago

Oscillating between the micro, the meso, and the macro scales, the pragmatic attitude and participatory approach will hopefully inspire further practical engagement in coping with climate change.
Case Study
Gabriel Munoz Moreno

Re-Generator

In the end, the system results in an architecture capable of changing and finding the equilibrium between our living ways and the different ecosystems that we inhabit, an architecture that is formed by the natural ecosystem where it is deployed instead of imposing its necessities on it.
Case Study
Klaus K. Loenhart, Daniel Baumgartner, Patrick Fresner, Bianca Nedwetzky, Regina Nemecz, Theresa-Alena Platzer, Roberto Viforcos Giron, Sandra Weinrauch, Katharina Wernig, Marie Theres Baumgartner, Jörg Dittus, Walter Frühwirth, Michael Keser, Philip Marzona, Magdalena Schepe, Anne Schlebbe, Sebastian Wattenberg, Maki Stolberg

Hybrid Practices in the Venice Lagoon

Now that the myth of limitless growth shows visible cracks, a new understanding of the lagoon archipelago can be created by developing sustainable economic scenarios, tailored to local circumstances.
Project
Shadi Azizi, Hamid Reza Mousavi, Alireza Delpazir, Mohammad M. Zanjanian, Shadnaz Azizi, Nima Vahedi, Arezoo Khamesi, Hesam Tavasoli, Siavash Ghorbani Jazi, Milad Heidari, Seyed Ali Chavoshian, Alireza Ghazizadeh

Tehran: Green Meeting Blue

The project proposes raising connectivity between, and attractiveness of, river banks on various scales ranging from local urban design to the city’s overall spatial development.
Case Study
Ariadna Weinhaar, Simranjit Kaur

Ecology without Nature

The understanding of a landscape should begin with the understanding of its geomorphological aspects and the natural processes of land formation that are constantly changing its natural shape over different times and scales.
Case Study
Jasmin Honold, Myriel Milicevic, Leonie Fischer

About Migrating Species and Human Happiness

The urban densification poses risks to the physical and mental health of us humans, particularly by causing stress-related illnesses. However, staying in, or views of vegetated urban areas can reduce stress and thus, improve city residents’ health.

VI MIGRATION

Chapter
Case Study
Mariya Nesheva, Christos Antoniou

Out of Proportions

It is time for EU states to formulate a long-term policy for the curtailment of social differences.
Project
Nina Valerie Kolowratnik, Johannes Pointl, Martina Soi Gunelas, Birgit Miksch, Lea Soltau, Anton Wagner, Mario Weisböck

States of Refuge

Host countries must therefore begin to work with longterm spatial solutions, rather than implement ad hoc spatial solutions behind the smokescreen of impermanence.
Case Study
Anton Wagner, Mario Weisböck

Borders and Movements

If the flood of refugees is seen as a state of emergency that overwhelms the individual, then it stands that asylum seekers en route are excluded from being part of a society.
Case Study
Kristina Mostovaia, Jamila Bräunlich, Doreen Ahmed

A Stranger at Home

When considering social segregation processes, one can easily see that strong intermixing and co-occurrence of different cultures also lead to miscellaneous challenges. In this context, segregation basically means the separation of different cultures, spatially and with regards to their living worlds.
Case Study
Pengbin Ma, Hou Ruimiao, Gao Yang, Zhu Wenqi, Wu Yiting

City Pixels – Migrant Workers in China

The scale of China’s internal rural-urban migration in such a short period reaches an unseen level throughout the history.
Case Study
Li Tian, Xinyi Niu, Boyi Wang, Pu Chen, Jihuan Li, Liang Ding, Yixiang Ma, Jingwei Li, Yiqin Wu, Jiayi Hu, Xuecong Yang, Yuan Zhao

Migrant Communities in China

Leaving hometown, moving to a bigger city in search of better opportunities is, historically speaking, not a new phenomenon. Britain’s industrialization attracting rural surplus labor into big cities marked its significance in modern times.
Diagram
Ruya Yuksel, Grégoire Farquet, Florian Schweizer

The Last Page: Baking a Cake Together

Leseprobe