City Cycles

Mikrotransformation als urbane Strategie des Circular Design

authored by

Jörg Schröder, Federica Scaffidi, Jörg Schröder, Federica Scaffidi

Abstract

CO2, energy and resource issues urge us to reuse and transform the existing city instead of expanding it and delving into new construction. The micro-transformation approach featured in this book introduces an urban scale of circularity aimed at recycling space and buildings, not recycling waste materials. For the case study of the Karlín and Holešovice neighbourhoods in Prague, intervention sites are selected in order to play out experimental ways of densifying the city - as a maxim for climate neutrality - not only spatially, but also socially and culturally. The focus is on the enrichment of housing through new typologies, organisational and spatial forms of work, community and culture, in the field of tension between responding to different actors, initiatives and movements in the city and concepts of robustness and adaptability.

Organisation(s)

Territorial Design and Urban Planning

Type

Monograph

No. of pages

218

Publication date

26.09.2024

Publication status

E-pub ahead of print

Research Area (based on ÖFOS 2012)

Urban design, Urban planning, Architectural design

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities