Back to the City
Strategies for Informal Urban Interventions. Collaborations between Artists and Architects
1st Edition
Published on 25. November 2008
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-3-7757-2329-9 (ISBN)
Description
Empty
city lots and buildings are often used as starting points for cultural
innovations. As a consequence of the transformation of the post-industrial city,
the public space has become an exciting laboratory for interdisciplinary
cooperation among artists, architects, urban planners, and landscape
architects.
Featuring
essays by acknowledged experts, Back to the City documents 28 site-specific
installations and temporary interventions inGermany and Australia, which
offer exemplary prospects for the revitalization of empty land and thus
demonstrate the great potential of provisional usage of urban spaces. The
projects date from 2002 to 2008 and were curated by architect and urban planner
Steffen Lehmann, Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, UNESCO
Professor for Sustainable Urban Development and the founding director of s_Lab
Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design.
city lots and buildings are often used as starting points for cultural
innovations. As a consequence of the transformation of the post-industrial city,
the public space has become an exciting laboratory for interdisciplinary
cooperation among artists, architects, urban planners, and landscape
architects.
Featuring
essays by acknowledged experts, Back to the City documents 28 site-specific
installations and temporary interventions inGermany and Australia, which
offer exemplary prospects for the revitalization of empty land and thus
demonstrate the great potential of provisional usage of urban spaces. The
projects date from 2002 to 2008 and were curated by architect and urban planner
Steffen Lehmann, Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, UNESCO
Professor for Sustainable Urban Development and the founding director of s_Lab
Space Laboratory for Architectural Research and Design.