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Titre:
Architecture on common ground: positions and models on the land property issue

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How we deal with land has far-reaching implications for architecture and urban development. The last decade has seen a dramatic rise in the privatization of urban land and in speculation. Many European cities that today find themselves under extreme development pressure have virtually no land left to build on. In view of the acute housing shortage, the question of who owns the land is therefore more relevant than ever. To what extent are we able to treat the land as a common good and guard it from the excesses of capitalism? ''Architecture on common ground'' provides a historical overview of land property from Henry George to the present. Interviews with stakeholders in global models provide insights into the current handling of the land issue. The book presents outstanding projects based on either a legal or spatial distribution of land and thus makes a valuable contribution to the current discussion on sustainable land policy.

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Positions on emancipation: architecture between aesthetics and politics

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During the last decades architecture has been largely characterized by a lack of strong positions. A form of neoliberal indifference has become endemic, something that can be attributed to the fact that modernism has lost its claim to be both emancipatory and educational. More recently though, one can again observe attitudes that claim to address architecture and urbanism as more engaged with the social and political effects of global capitalism. This book relays a passionate debate between some of the most outstanding theoreticians and eloquent protagonists of this new attitude, leaving us with an overview of such postulated ambitions. Against the liberal “anything goes” and the revival of architectural autonomy, these attitudes believe less in the possibility for even the most experimental architectural object to have a changing effect on society. Their approaches instead vary from activism to the construction of new critical narratives.

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The Dialogic City. Berlin wird Berlin : Berlininische Galerie

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Dieser 700 seitige Reader ist gegliedert durch Gegensatzpaare, zu denen sich die Autoren aus der Geschichte Berlins heraus argumentierend mit besonders dialogischen oder undialogischen Momenten beschäftigen: Zentren/Mitte, Stadt/Natur, Fiktion/Realität, Fremdbild/Eigenlogik, Gemeinschaft/Individualität, Teilhabe/Governance und Boden/Eigentum. Um diese Paarungen gruppieren sich detaillierte Betrachtungen und Interviews mit Berliner Akteuren.