Urban Appropriation Strategies: Exploring Space-Making Practices in Contemporary European Cityscapes (Urban Studies)

In the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a methodological rethinking for those professionals, social and natural scientists, artists, and activists, with an interest in the processes of remaking and reclaiming urban space. With a practical and empirical emphasis, this anthology brings forth a variety of perspectives on urban appropriation strategies, their relation to public space-making, and their implications for future city development, exploring how ideas and practices of appropriation inform and relate to cultural narratives, politico-historical occasions as well as socio-ecological expressions. In the last years, contemporary European city-making and dwelling has been changing its face. Against this background, new guidelines are needed for professionals, social and natural scientists, artists and activists with an interest in the processes of remaking and reclaiming urban space.0With a practical and empirical emphasis, this anthology brings forth a variety of perspectives on urban appropriation strategies, their relation to public space-making and their implications for future city development by exploring how ideas and practices of appropriation inform and relate to cultural narratives, politic-historical occasions as well as socio-ecological expressions Table of Content Acknowledgements Urban Appropriation Strategies APPROPRIATION AS A MEANS TO CREATE CITIZEN-CENTRED URBAN SPACES Open Space Development through Appropriation. Between Imagination and Paradox Researching the Underground Self-Organising the Commons through the Right to the City Mapping the Teufelsberg APPROPRIATION OF NATURE, THE URBAN AND URBAN NATURE(S) Urban Natures of Appropriation Flussbad Berlin Where Context Meets Content(s) Urban Appropriation at the University APPROPRIATION OF THE URBAN IN THE CONTEXT OF MIGRATION Urban Planning in the Context of Migration Streetworks Kitchen on the Run Author Biographies