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"On the personal narratives that exist alongside architecture. Cities are full of stories--running in parallel, contradictory, overlapping and inseparably linked. Such stories are told in Living the City, referencing various projects from architecture, art and urban planning. The book aims to show processes and possibilities for action in cities based on more than 50 projects from all over Europe. The publication first looks at urbanites before expanding into emotionally and poetically charged stories that consider basic activities such as loving, living, moving, working, learning, playing, dreaming, and participating in the city. The book is published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name at the former airport in Tempelhof, Berlin. Contributors include: Assemble, ateliermob, Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine, Civic Architects, Crimson Historians and Urbanists, Eutropian, Larissa Fassler, Jeppe Hein, Thomas Hirschhorn, Lacaton & Vassal, No Shade, Olalekan Jeyifous, Ahmet Ögüt, Planbude, raumlaborberlin, Rotor DC, The Black Archives, White Arkitekter and Zones Urbaines Sensibles"--Artbook.com.

Table of Contents:

• Preface by the Federal Minister of the Interior, Building and Community / Horst Seehofer
• The transformative power of the open city / Oliver Weigel, Stephan Willinger, Lisa Schopp
• Living the city - of cities, people and stories / Lukas Feireiss, Tatjana Schneider, TheGreenEyl
• Loving. From wasteland to neighborhood locale
• Small fortified buildings
• A model project for refugee integration
• A small town's dialogue with civil society
• River landscapes in the city
• A sign for Europe
• Living. Transformation instead of demolition and construction
• Intimate inner lives
• The cooperative housing project above a tram depot
• Of people in cities
• Like a fox in the city
• Making. A quarter taking matters into its own hands
• Architecture's second life
• Who builds our cities?
• A different kind of city kitchen
• This is our house!
• Test city

• Community-building constructions
• Participating. A co-financed bridge generates new impulses
• The street as a protest space
• Provoking encounters
• Attempt at radical participation
• Participation in city design
• Financing the cooperative city
• Work yard for construction materials
• Initiative for a cooperative future city
• Learning. A model city of memories and dreams
• Technical assistance for an informal settlement
• Tracing colonial histories
• Diversity in club culture
• From locomotive workshop to library
• A refugee hotel in the heart of Athens
• City in transition
• Playing. A somewhat different ministry of space
• Through the city, again
• Modified street furniture
• The city as a skate park
• City games
• Be heard : the right to the city
• City swings
• Art and activism
• Moving. How residential areas become car-free
• All-around service for urban mobility needs
• Critical mass for freedom and movement
• Attempting to capture a place
• Lived space
• A city displaced
• Making room
• Desired routes
• Dreaming. An Afrofuturist vision.

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Author/Creator:

Feireiss, Lukas , author

Contributors:

Schneider, Tatjana , author

TheGreenEyl (Firm) , author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut

Germany Bundesministerium des Innern , commissioning institution

Tempelhof Central Airport (Germany) , host institution, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/his

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Living the city: of cities, people and stories [by Feireiss, L.]

Subjects:

City planning — Europe — Exhibitions

Sociology, Urban — Europe — Exhibitions

City and town life — Europe — Exhibitions

Sociology, Urban

City and town life

City planning

Europe

Genres:

Exhibition catalogs

General Notes:

This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Living the City. About Cities, People and Stories,' September 25-December 20, 2020, Berlin-Tempelhof Airport.
"An exhibition within the framework of the National Urban Development Policy. Commissioned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community, supported by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development : Lisa Schopp, Stephan Willinger"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

340 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm

Physical Characteristics:

map; illustration

Call Numbers:

HT178.E8 F45 2020

ISBNs:

3959054173 (paperback)
9783959054171 (paperback)

OCLC Numbers:

1156623697