Marc Angélil

Cities of change - Addis Ababa: transformation strategies for urban territories in the 21st century

Dieses Handbuch analysiert zeitgen ssische urbane Ph nomene in Wachstumsregionen am Beispiel der thiopischen Hauptstadt Addis Abeba und stellt einen Katalog nachhaltiger Strategien f r die St dtebaupraxis in der 2. und 3. Welt vor.

Discourse on the Potentials for Innovation in Contemporary Planning

Kristian Kreiner is Professor Emeritus at Copenhagen Business School, Department of Organization. He was the founder and director of the Center for Management Studies of the Building Process. He has published widely on managerial practices and strategies in relation to design and construction, focusing especially on the impact of the complex and uncertain conditions that characterize the building industry.

Forum 1 m2/sek 08/15: Von der Negentropie zur Entropie

1m2/sec stands for the speed of urbanization processes that are generally associated with urban sprawl. 08/15 – an idiom in colloquial German describing run-of-the-mill phenomena – stands for the mediocre standards associated with urban development. The formula 1m2/sec 08/15 addresses the modus operandi of contemporary urban production and combines the velocity of land consumption with generally agreed-upon standards. Few know that 08/15 was the designation of a German infantry machine gun issued during the First World War. Model number 08/15 stood for a new system of production. The institutional network established to produce the automatic weapon had all the characteristics of a megamachine, a term used by Lewis Mumford to describe a specific form of collective organization put in place to realize large-scale projects and requiring an efficient bureaucratic apparatus. Assemblies of this type have the tendency to take on a life of their own. Similarly, the mechanism at work in urbanization processes adhere to principles of megamachines, producing a form of 08/15 city. Urbanization entails the deployment of normed components, applied again and again. Each element follows precisely determined standards. One always encounters the same housing and retail developments, with similar densities, identical set backs, and given typologies. Instead of differentiation: a featureless substance framing the reality of contemporary agglomerations.