The regeneration of critical urban areas through the redesign of public space with the
intense involvement of local communities seems to be the central focus of place-making …

This article discusses the concept of porosity and what it might offer critical urbanism. It
engages recent scholarly and practical writing on the “porous city,” outlining three sets of …

Using a transnational analytical framework, this book provides a comprehensive overview of
formal and informal markets and place in globalised cities. It examines how urban markets …

Planning experiences in Milan, Rome and Bologna are presented as critical laboratories for
discussing new directions in research at the crossroads between urban planning and urban …

The book explores the relationship between the shrinking process and architecture and
urban design practices. Starting from a journey in former East Germany, six different scenes …

This chapter reveals, by deconstructing design hypotheses, discourses and representations,
the consequences of “ecological rationality.” The result is an new body of knowledge about …

As an island with a colonial urbanscape, Gulangyu (located off the coast of Xiamen, a city in
Fujian Province in southern China) has been deteriorating into a touristic 'thematic …

This chapter argues that new conceptual infrastructures and transformative practices are
needed to cope with contemporary environmental and societal challenges. It reflects first on …

The goal of this paper is to contribute to the development of methods of social innovation in
participatory urban design. Based on the 'Synoikos scenario Workshop', an adapted …

This paper studies the early phases of the process of electrification in Belgium in order to
shed light on the emergence of a distributed model of urbanization. The paper argues that …