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Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations

Author/EditorViderman, Tihomir (Author)
Knierbein, Sabine (Author)
Kranzle, Elina (Author)
Frank, Sybille (Author)
Roskamm, Nikolai (Author)
ISBN: 9780367258603
Pub Date31/10/2022
BindingPaperback
Pages280
Dimensions (mm)234(h) * 156(w)
While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people urban space is rarely stable or safe. As the notion of unsettled appears to define contemporary urban experience, this book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and unsettling through open and speculative analysis.
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1. Global context with chapters which focus on African, European, North- and South-American, as well as Asian cases, contexts and circumstances
2. Chapters address the unsettled in one or more of the proposed ways while focusing on empirical, methodological
and/or theoretical advancement of qualitative urban research on contemporary processes of urbanization

1. Global context with chapters which focus on African, European, North- and South-American, as well as Asian cases, contexts and circumstances
2. Chapters address the unsettled in one or more of the proposed ways while focusing on empirical, methodological
and/or theoretical advancement of qualitative urban research on contemporary processes of urbanization

Tihomir Viderman is a Research Associate at the Chair of Urban Management of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and a doctoral candidate at TU Wien. Sabine Knierbein is a Professor at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, TU Wien. She was Visiting Professor for Urban Political Geography at the University of Florence. Elina Kranzle is a Senior Scientist at the Social Design Studio, University of Applied Arts Vienna and a doctoral candidate at the TU Wien. Sybille Frank is a Professor for Urban Sociology and Sociology of Space at TU Darmstadt. She was Visiting Professor for Urban Solidarity and European Crisis at TU Wien. Nikolai Roskamm is a Professor of Planning Theory, History of Urbanism and Urban Design at the FH Erfurt. He was Visiting Professor for Urban Peace and National Welfare at TU Wien. Ed Wall is the Academic Lead of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Greenwich. He was Visiting Professor for Urban Equity and the Global Agenda at TU Wien.

1. Urban Space Unsettled: The Unravelling of Routines, Temporalities and Contestations in Urban Studies Tihomir Viderman, Sabine Knierbein, Sybille Frank, Elina Kranzle, Nikolai Roskamm and Ed Wall Part I: Urban Routines 2. Urban Routines: An Introduction Tihomir Viderman and Sybille Frank 3. Vietnamese Hip Hop Don't Stop: Unsettling Normative Ideas of Gender around the Block Sandra Kurfurst 4. Unsettled 'Publicness' and the Embodied Appropriation of Iktinou Street in Thessaloniki Evangelia Athanassiou 5. Unsettling Planning Practices: From Accommodation to Dwelling in Hamburg Dominique Peck, Anna Richter, Christopher Dell and Bernd Kniess 6. (Un)Settling Remembrance in Public Space: The Performance of a Heroic National Narrative in the Austrian National Holiday Celebrations at Vienna's Heldenplatz Elina Kranzle 7. Berlin's Neighborhoods in the Tourist Trap? Local Routines Unsettled by New Urban Tourism Stefan Brandt, Sybille Frank and Anna Laura Raschke 8. Disrupted, Unsettled, Contested: Working Homelessness in Silicon Valley Rafael Essl Part II: Urban Temporalities 9. Urban Temporalities: An Introduction Ed Wall and Sabine Knierbein 10. (Un)Settling Home in Dubai Racha Daher 11. Aging in Cities: Everyday Unsettling, Planning and Design Angelika Gabauer 12. From Cleaning to Cleansing: Maintenance as an Urban Development Practice at Paddington Waterside, London Ed Wall 13. The Gentrification of Chicago's Cabrini Green and the Temporalities of Urban Change Judit Bodnar 14. 'And the Straw Cottage to a Palace Turns': The Foundation of Birmingham Library as Civic Ground Michael Dring 15. Property as Practice: The Collective Landholding Patterns of Black Churches Gabriel Cuellar Part III: Urban Contestations 16. Urban Contestations: An Introduction Elina Kranzle and Nikolai Roskamm 17. 'Ni Una Menos': Practices, Aims and Achievements of a Grassroots Women's Movement Against Femicide and Patriarchal Relations in Argentina Maria de la Paz Toscani, Paula Rosa and Regina Vidosa 18. Setting, Setzung, Sedimentation: Political Conflict and Radical Democracy in Urban Planning Gabu Heindl 19. (Un)Settling Urban Cultural Politics: New York's People's Cultural Plan and the Dislocation of Ghosts Friederike Landau-Donnelly 20. From Dispute, to Controversy, to Crisis: Conceptualizing Unsettling Dynamics in The Hague Nanke Verloo 21. Served but Unsettled: The Contentious Side of Services for the Homeless Massimo Bricocoli and Simon Guntner 22. The Challenges of Consensus, Conflict and Democratic Participation in Turbulent Waters Sophie Watson

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