Oswalt, P., 2005, Schrumpfende Städte Bd 2, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfieldern Ruit
- Author : Oswalt, P.
- Year : 2005
- Title English : Shrinking Cities, Vol. 2:
- Publisher : Hatje Cantz Verlag
- Publisher's Location : Ostfieldern Ruit
- ISBN : ISBN-13 978-3-7757-1
- Pages : 831
- Abstract : In dealing with shrinking cities, classical urban design and city planning reach their limits. In the face of this new challenge, new paths are taken: the "hard" tools of construction and deconstruction are joined with the "soft" tools of political, social, cultural, and communicative interventions. This book provides an international overview of experimental concepts for action for shrinking cities from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban construction, the media, performance, and art. The approaches of these articles range from artistic intercessions and self-empowerment projects through architectural and landscape interventions, strategies of media communication and city marketing to new legal regulations and utopian designs. Some of the works presented were commissioned in the framework of the Shrinking Cities project some were existing projects of recent decades from the USA, Britain, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, or Japan. Contains: Projects by Will Alsop, Ruedi Baur, Florian Beigel, Chaos Computer Club, Crimson, Jeremy Deller, M. J. Ginzburg, Gordon Matta-Clark, muf, Hidetoshi Ohno, OMA, Cedric Price, Andreas Siekmann, Robert Smithson, Superflex, Oswald Mathias Ungers, and many more. Essays by Ash Amin, Regina Bittner, Wolfgang Engler, Robert Fishman, Dan Graham, David Harvey, Juan Herreros, Bart Lootsma, and many more.
- Outline : For four years, a large number of international researchers, artists, architects, and planners addressed the topic of processes of urban shrinking in the framework of the initiative project Shrinking Cities.