Unsettled urban space : : routines, temporalities and contestations / / edited by Tihomir Viderman [and five others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Viderman, Tihomir,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Taylor & Francis,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 pages)

"While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people and living entities urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges, and perpetually under pressure. As the notion of unsettled appears to define contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and unsettling through open and speculative analysis. The analytical prism of unsettled renders urban space an indeterminate ground unfolding through routines, temporalities and contestations in tension between settling and unsettling. Such contrasting experiences are contingent on how urban societies confront, undergo and overcome turbulence and difficulties in time and space. A collection of contributions drawing on theoretical reflections and empirical accounts-from Argentina, Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Vietnam-give insights into past and present plural uncertainties, antagonisms and ambivalences in a variety of urban forms, relations and expressions. The chapters reveal conditions under which unsettled might tie down or unleash transformative, liberatory and emancipatory potentials. This book is for students, professionals, and researchers interested in the uncertainties, foundations, disturbances, inconsistencies, residuals and blind fields which constitute the urban both as lived space and as social, cultural and political ideal" -- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

1. Urban Space Unsettled: The Unravelling of Routines, Temporalities and Contestations in Urban Studies Tihomir Viderman, Sabine Knierbein, Sybille Frank, Elina Kranzle, Nikolai Roskamm and Ed WallPart I: Urban Routines -- 2. Urban Routines: An Introduction Tihomir Viderman and Sybille Frank -- 3. Vietnamese Hip Hop Don't Stop: Unsettling Normative Ideas of Gender around the Block Sandra Kurfurst -- 4. Unsettled 'Publicness' and the Embodied Appropriation of Iktinou Street in Thessaloniki Evangelia Athanassiou -- 5. Unsettling Planning Practices: From Accommodation to Dwelling in Hamburg Dominique Peck, Anna Richter, Christopher Dell and Bernd Kniess -- 6. (Un)Settling Remembrance in Public Space: The Performance of a Heroic National Narrative in the Austrian National Holiday Celebrations at Vienna's Heldenplatz Elina Kranzle -- 7. Berlin's Neighborhoods in the Tourist Trap? Local Routines Unsettled by New Urban Tourism Stefan Brandt, Sybille Frank and Anna Laura Raschke -- 8. Disrupted, Unsettled, Contested: Working Homelessness in Silicon Valley Rafael Essl -- Part II: Urban Temporalities -- 9. Urban Temporalities: An Introduction Ed Wall and Sabine Knierbein -- 10. (Un)Settling Home in Dubai Racha Daher -- 11. Aging in Cities: Everyday Unsettling, Planning and Design Angelika Gabauer -- 12. From Cleaning to Cleansing: Maintenance as an Urban Development Practice at Paddington Waterside, London Ed Wall -- 13. The Gentrification of Chicago's Cabrini Green and the Temporalities of Urban Change Judit Bodnar -- 14. 'And the Straw Cottage to a Palace Turns': The Foundation of Birmingham Library as Civic Ground Michael Dring -- 15. Property as Practice: The Collective Landholding Patterns of Black Churches Gabriel Cuellar -- Part III: Urban Contestations -- 16. Urban Contestations: An Introduction Elina Kranzle and Nikolai Roskamm -- 17. 'Ni Una Menos': Practices, Aims and Achievements of a Grassroots Women's Movement Against Femicide and Patriarchal Relations in Argentina Maria de la Paz Toscani, Paula Rosa and Regina Vidosa -- 18. Setting, Setzung, Sedimentation: Political Conflict and Radical Democracy in Urban Planning Gabu Heindl -- 19. (Un)Settling Urban Cultural Politics: New York's People's Cultural Plan and the Dislocation of Ghosts Friederike Landau-Donnelly -- 20. From Dispute, to Controversy, to Crisis: Conceptualizing Unsettling Dynamics in The Hague Nanke Verloo -- 21. Served but Unsettled: The Contentious Side of Services for the Homeless Massimo Bricocoli and Simon Guntner -- 22. The Challenges of Consensus, Conflict and Democratic Participation in Turbulent WatersSophie Watson.