Porous City: From Metaphor to Urban Agenda

Published by Birkhäuser 2024

Porous City

From Metaphor to Urban Agenda

Edited by: Sophie Wolfrum

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035615784

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About this book

Radically mixed urban functions

Some time ago, Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis used the term "porosity" with reference to Naples’ urban characteristics – spaces merging into each other and providing the backdrop for the unforeseen – improvisation as a way of life.

Today, the term "porosity" in this context is increasingly used conceptually.

Well-known authors from the worlds of architecture, town planning, and landscape design embark on a search for new concepts for a life-enhancing, user-friendly city – with reference to this enigmatic term.

The term refers to the overlaying and interweaving of spaces and structures, to urban textures and their architectural properties and qualities – to cities with radically mixed urban functions.

Publication for a conference on a fundamental urbanistic subject

60 well-known authors

An important contribution to the current European debate on urban design

Author / Editor information

Sophie Wolfrum is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Munich.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Porous City-From Metaphor to Urban Agenda Sophie Wolfrum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Reflections on the Term
Porosity—Porous City Sophie Wolfrum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
News from Naples? An Essay on Conceptual Narratives Michael Koch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Porous—Notes on the Architectural History of the Term Dietrich Erben Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
Urban Porosity and the Right to a Shared City Stavros Stavrides Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
Drifting Clouds: Porosity as a Paradigm Maren Harnack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
The Ideal of the Broken-down: Porous States of Disrepair Giorgia Aquilar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
Porous Iridescences Eduard Bru Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Porosity: Why This Figure Is Still Useful Paola Viganò Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Architecture and Urban Design
Exploring the Unforeseen—Porosity as a Concept Christian Zöhrer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
Still Here while Being There—About Boundaries and Thresholds Sophie Wolfrum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
Negotiating Porosity Christoph Heinemann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Deep Threshold Bruno Krucker and Stephen Bates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Porous and Hybrid: Conditions for the Complex City Rita Pinto de Freitas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Thinking about Staircases: Circulation Spaces in Residential Housing Francesca Fornasier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Porosity of the Monolithic Uta Graff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Bigness and Porosity Margitta Buchert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
Reintroducing Porosity Gunther Laux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Space In-between Doris Zolle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
Theodor Fischer, Urban Spaces Munich Markus Lanz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
Ambiguous Figure and Cloud Alban Janson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Producing Space and Acting
Performativity, Sensuality, Temporary Interventions, Negotiation Heiner Stengel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
What Can Architecture Do? Blueprint for a Porous Architecture Museum Angelika Fitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
The “Curated” City—Art in Public Space Hanne Rung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Building Vibrant Environments Alex Römer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
Porosity and Open Form Christopher Dell, Bernd Kniess, Dominique Peck and Anna Richter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
WandererUni around the World Ton Matton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Improvised City Dimitris Theodoropoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Does the City Blur All Its Traces? Heiner Stengel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Open Leipzig, 2009 Sofia Dona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
Salsa Urbana Alissa Diesch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	144
Beyond the Wall The Tentative Collective Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
Urban Regulations and Planning
About Legal Frameworks, Basic Politics, and Tactics Imke Mumm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
Toward a New Land Reform Florian Hertweck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
Urbanes Gebiet Sophie Wolfrum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
The Porous City Cannot Be Planned! Imke Mumm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Cities in Suspension Sofia Dona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
A City Is an Apple Tree Alex Lehnerer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Porosity—Is Munich a Porous City? Elisabeth Merk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
Just Design It: Porosity as Leeway for Designing Urban Space Nikolai Frhr. von Brandis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Cairo’s Advanced Informality Marc Angélil and Cary Siress Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Cairo Episodes Monique Jüttner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Urban Territoriality and Strategies
Moving from the Macro- to the Microscale in the Anthropocene Sofia Dona Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
The City in the Anthropocene—Multiple Porosities Undine Giseke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200
A New Water Metabolism: Porosity and Decentralization Cornelia Redeker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Holes in the Future City: Java’s Volcanoes Philip Ursprung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	210
Porous or Porridge City? Kees Christiaanse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	218
The Connected and Multiscalar City: Porosity in the Twenty-first Century Alain Thierstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
Urban Landscape Infiltrations Alexandra Bauer, Julian Schaefer, Soeren Schoebel and Yuting Xie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	226
Porosity as a Structural Principle of Urban Landscapes Udo Weilacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Detecting Porosity
Hanging Around in the Urban Field Norbert Kling and Florian Kurbasik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Porosity in Public Spaces of Migration Ela Kaçel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
When Commons Become Common Max Ott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
St. Louis 1875–2025 Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Yü Chen and Sabine Zahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Contested Porosities Norbert Kling and Carsten Jungfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
Bahnhofsviertel Florian Kurbasik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
From Diversity to Porosity Shan Yang and Jie Sun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
Porous Boundary Spaces in the Beijing Old City Tianyu Zhu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
From Counterinsurgency to Urban Quality Frank Eisenmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280
Flows, Processes, and Weak Urbanization in Mexico City Christof Göbel and Elizabeth Espinosa Dorantes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	286
Situation Markus Lanz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	290
Accentuate the Positive… Karl Detering and Simon Beesley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
Contributors / Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	302
Picture Credits / Impressum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Stadtplaner, Architekten, Studenten
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: Urbanism; City planning; Architecture; Urban planning

eBook

Published: March 19, 2018
ISBN: 9783035615784

Hardcover

Published: March 19, 2018
ISBN: 9783035616019