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Title: Time – Space – Places

Time – Space – Places

by Dietrich Henckel (Volume editor) Elke Pahl-Weber (Volume editor) Benjamin Herkommer (Volume editor)
©2007 Edited Collection 230 Pages
Science, Society & Culture

Summary

The fate of the city as a way of organising human social life has frequently been declared as sealed. After decades of urban sprawl, technological revolutions towards the end of the 20th century sparked speculation about the virtualisation of urban functions: cyberspace instead of city. Moreover, the flexibilisation of time structures began to add a temporal dimension to the fragmentation of urban regions. Looking back on the apocalyptic prophecies of the 1990s, it is encouraging to discover that the city is still among the living. There is indeed a simultaneity of dispersion and concentration. Spatial and temporal density are not in the process of dissolving: they are being redefined. The international conference Time Space Places undertook to trace the course of this redefinition and the new constellations of our urban system.

Details

Pages
230
Year
2007
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631548004
Language
English
Keywords
Berlin (2005) Infrastucture Stadtregion Zukunft Stadtentwicklung Kongress City Urban Planning Urban Design
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. 229 pp., num. fig., tables and graphs

Biographical notes

Dietrich Henckel (Volume editor) Elke Pahl-Weber (Volume editor) Benjamin Herkommer (Volume editor)

The Editors: Dietrich Henckel worked as a researcher at the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). He is now dean of the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, Technical University Berlin, where he teaches Urban and Regional Economics. Dietrich Henckel is member of several German and international research associations and on the executive board of the German Society for Time Policy (DGfZP). Elke Pahl-Weber is head of Unit for Urban Renewal and Planning at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, Technical University, Berlin and CEO of Urban Planning and Design Consultants BPW-Hamburg. She is member of the executive board of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning (Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung (DASL)) and on the Institutional Board of the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu). Benjamin Herkommer studies Urban and Regional Planning at the Technical University Berlin. He was research assistant at the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) and the Institute of Sociology, Technical University Berlin. He is member of the German Society for Time Policy (DGfZP) and currently works as student research assistant at the Institute of Urban and Regional Planning, Technical University Berlin.

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