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Developing a Culture for Experiments: Testing Urban Interventions for More Sustainable Planning
Author(s)
Minh-Chau Tran
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2142/2016.04.003
Affiliation(s)
Institute of City Planning and Urban Design, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen 45141, Germany
ABSTRACT
One of the strategies linking abstract topics such as
climate change or sustainable mobility with everyday action is to implement
temporary urban interventions. They are regarded as part of participatory
planning processes that help to network different urban participants and
discuss solutions for the development of urban qualities at eye level. Urban
interventions are experiments, they initiate open debates instead of complex
and tedious planning processes. The understanding of the city as a laboratory
at the interface of science and practice is portrayed in a seminar at the at
the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2014. It demonstrated how street space
could be designed and used alternatively. In a specific district, different concepts for
urban interventions in public space were developed and put into practice for
one day. On the one hand, the experiments showed
that municipalities and other stakeholders need more courage for experiments in
order to offer residents new means to express their desires for change. On the
other hand, temporary urban
interventions provide new options for public institutions and planning
professionals to break free from perfected and fossilized planning routines.
How interventions can be integrated in German urban planning practice is
presented in the end of this article.
KEYWORDS
Urban intervention, urban planning, urban design, public space, civil participation.
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