The Redundant City - A Multi-Site Enquiry into Urban Narratives of Conflict and Change

Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and revised. Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge in architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis of a large housing estate. The outcome of this twofold research approach is the sensitising concept of the Redundant City. It describes a specific form of collectively negotiated urban change.

About the author

Norbert Kling is an architect, researcher, and urbanist. He currently teaches architectural and urban design at the Technical University of Munich, where he received a Dr.-Ing. in Architecture. His research interests include conditions of asymmetric urban change and alternative spatial practices, as well as questions of concept formation, method and process in the spatial disciplines. He is partner at the award winning practice zectorarchitects London/Munich.

Summary

Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and revised. Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge in architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis of a large housing estate. The outcome of this twofold research approach is the sensitising concept of the Redundant City. It describes a specific form of collectively negotiated urban change.

Product details

• Authors: Dr -Ing Norbert Kling, Norbert Kling
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2020
• EAN: 9783837651140
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-5114-0
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 24 mm x 243 mm
• Weight: 607 g
• Illustrations: 58 SW-Abb., 96 Farbabb.
• Series: Urban Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Urban and regional sociology; Architektur, City, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Sustainability, Bevölkerung und Demographie, Space, Sociology, Society, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies, Munich, Political activism, Communities, Concept, Environmental Economics, auseinandersetzen, Demonstrations & protest movements, Sociology and anthropology, Regional government, Culture and institutions, Factors affecting social behavior, Social processes, Macroeconomics and related topics, Political science (Politics and government), Situational Analysis, Parkstadt Bogenhausen, Housing Estate