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Contingencies in Urban Future-Making
Pitfalls, Potentialities, and Transformative Practices- Editors:
- | |
- Series:
- Urban Future-Making, Volume 2
- Publisher:
- 2025
Summary
In an era of rapid change and growing uncertainty, we are facing an urgent question: How can cities be built for futures that defy prediction? The contributors to this volume tackle this challenge by exploring the role of contingency in urban future-making. Through a range of case studies, they examine relevant aims, strategies, and decision-making processes in both past and present contexts. They reveal how unexpected events and unpredictable factors unsettle established urban conditions but also spark new ideas and possibilities for rethinking and reshaping the city. The volume shows how urban future-making involves navigating highly uncertain environments and extreme conditions, opening new spaces of knowledge and action.
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2025
- Copyright Year
- 2025
- ISBN-Print
- 978-3-8376-7900-7
- ISBN-Online
- 978-3-8394-3014-9
- Publisher
- transcript, Bielefeld
- Series
- Urban Future-Making
- Volume
- 2
- Language
- German
- Pages
- 403
- Product Type
- Edited Book
Table of contents
ChapterPages
- 2. Understanding contingencies in urban future-makingPages 21 - 46Authors: | |Download chapter (PDF)
- 3. Understanding temporalities in urban future-makingPages 47 - 72Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)
- 4. Urban futures in the dialectic of Indigenous real estate developmentPages 75 - 98Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- 5. From working-class cultivation to non-commercialized social interactionsPages 99 - 126Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- 7. Urban air mobility as a new level for transport?Pages 149 - 172Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)
- 8. Contingencies in rooftop extensions on multifamily buildings from the 1950s and 1960s in HamburgPages 175 - 198Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- 10. Exploring the contingency of small-scale urban transformation through interstitial practices at the site of a former war bunkerPages 223 - 246Authors:Download chapter (PDF)
- 15. Contingent unsustainable urban futures in São Paulo’s peripheriesPages 349 - 372Authors: |Download chapter (PDF)
