Porous City : From Metaphor to Urban Agenda

Radically mixed urban functions Some time ago, Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis used the term "porosity" with reference to Naples’ urban characteristics – spaces merging into each other and providing the backdrop for the unforeseen – improvisation as a way of life. Today, the term "porosity" in this context is increasingly used conceptually. Well-known authors from the worlds of architecture, town planning, and landscape design embark on a search for new concepts for a life-enhancing, user-friendly city – with reference to this enigmatic term. The term refers to the overlaying and interweaving of spaces and structures, to urban textures and their architectural properties and qualities – to cities with radically mixed urban functions. * Publication for a conference on a fundamental urbanistic subject * 60 well-known authors * An important contribution to the current European debate on urban design Content Porous City-From Metaphor to Urban Agenda Reflections on the Term Porosity—Porous City News from Naples? An Essay on Conceptual Narratives Porous—Notes on the Architectural History of the Term Urban Porosity and the Right to a Shared City Drifting Clouds: Porosity as a Paradigm The Ideal of the Broken-down: Porous States of Disrepair Porous Iridescences Porosity: Why This Figure Is Still Useful Architecture and Urban Design Exploring the Unforeseen—Porosity as a Concept Still Here while Being There—About Boundaries and Thresholds Negotiating Porosity Deep Threshold Porous and Hybrid: Conditions for the Complex City Thinking about Staircases: Circulation Spaces in Residential Housing Porosity of the Monolithic Bigness and Porosity Reintroducing Porosity Space In-between Theodor Fischer, Urban Spaces Munich Ambiguous Figure and Cloud Producing Space and Acting Performativity, Sensuality, Temporary Interventions, Negotiation What Can Architecture Do? Blueprint for a Porous Architecture Museum The “Curated” City—Art in Public Space Building Vibrant Environments Porosity and Open Form WandererUni around the World Improvised City Does the City Blur All Its Traces? Open Leipzig, 2009 Salsa Urbana Beyond the Wall The Tentative Collective Urban Regulations and Planning About Legal Frameworks, Basic Politics, and Tactics Toward a New Land Reform Urbanes Gebiet The Porous City Cannot Be Planned! Cities in Suspension A City Is an Apple Tree Porosity—Is Munich a Porous City? Just Design It: Porosity as Leeway for Designing Urban Space Cairo’s Advanced Informality Cairo Episodes Urban Territoriality and Strategies Moving from the Macro- to the Microscale in the Anthropocene The City in the Anthropocene—Multiple Porosities A New Water Metabolism: Porosity and Decentralization Holes in the Future City: Java’s Volcanoes Porous or Porridge City? The Connected and Multiscalar City: Porosity in the Twenty-first Century Urban Landscape Infiltrations Porosity as a Structural Principle of Urban Landscapes Detecting Porosity Hanging Around in the Urban Field Porosity in Public Spaces of Migration When Commons Become Common St. Louis 1875–2025 Contested Porosities Bahnhofsviertel From Diversity to Porosity Porous Boundary Spaces in the Beijing Old City From Counterinsurgency to Urban Quality Flows, Processes, and Weak Urbanization in Mexico City Situation Accentuate the Positive... Contributors / Authors Picture Credits / Impressum R adically mixed urban functions Some time ago, Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis used the term "porosity" with reference to Naples’ urban characteristics – spaces merging into each other and providing the backdrop for the unforeseen – improvisation as a way of life. Today, the term "porosity" in this context is increasingly used conceptually. Well-known authors from the worlds of architecture, town planning, and landscape design embark on a search for new concepts for a life-enhancing, user-friendly city – with reference to this enigmatic term. The term refers to the overlaying and interweaving of spaces and structures, to urban textures and their architectural properties and qualities – to cities with radically mixed urban functions. Publication for a conference on a fundamental urbanistic subject 60 well-known authors An important contribution to the current European debate on urban design

Mit "Porosität" benannten Walter Benjamin und Asja Lacis einst Neapels Eigenschaften: Räume gehen ineinander über, bieten Spielräume für Unvorhergesehenes, Improvisation ist Alltag. Heute wird der Begriff Porosität mit Bezug auf diesen Kontext zunehmend konzeptionell verwendet.

Renommierte Autoren aus Architektur, Stadtplanung und Landschaftsarchitektur begeben sich auf die Suche nach neuen Konzepten für eine lebenswerte, menschenfreundliche Stadt – im Zeichen dieses schillernden Begriffs.

Er dreht sich um die Überlagerung und Mischung von Räumen und Strukturen, um städtische Texturen und ihre architektonischen Eigenschaften und Qualitäten: um die Stadt der radikalen Durchmischung.

Mit "Porosität" benannten Walter Benjamin und Asja Lacis einst Neapels Eigenschaften: Räume gehen ineinander über, bieten Spielräume für Unvorhergesehenes, Improvisation ist Alltag. Heute wird der Begriff Porosität mit Bezug auf diesen Kontext zunehmend konzeptionell verwendet. Renommierte Autoren aus Architektur, Stadtplanung und Landschaftsarchitektur begeben sich auf die Suche nach neuen Konzepten für eine lebenswerte, menschenfreundliche Stadt - im Zeichen dieses schillernden Begriffs. Er dreht sich um die Überlagerung und Mischung von Räumen und Strukturen, um städtische Texturen und ihre architektonischen Eigenschaften und Qualitäten: um die Stadt der radikalen Durchmischung What is the porous city? How could porosity become an urban concept? Well-known authors from the worlds of architecture, urbanism, and landscape design embark on a search for new concepts for a life-enhancing city, with reference to this enigmatic term. The term refers to the overlaying and interweaving of spaces and structures, to urban textures and their architectural properties and qualities -- to cities with radically mixed urban functions