Unsettled Urban Space

Tihomir Viderman is a Research Associate at the Chair of Urban Management of BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and a doctoral candidate at TU Wien.Sabine Knierbein is a Professor at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space, TU Wien. She was Visiting Professor for Urban Political Geography at the University of Florence.Elina Kränzle is a Senior Scientist at the Social Design Studio, University of Applied Arts Vienna and a doctoral candidate at the TU Wien.Sybille Frank is a Professor for Urban Sociology and Sociology of Space at TU Darmstadt. She was Visiting Professor for Urban Solidarity and European Crisis at TU Wien.Nikolai Roskamm is a Professor of Planning Theory, History of Urbanism and Urban Design at the FH Erfurt. He was Visiting Professor for Urban Peace and National Welfare at TU Wien.Ed Wall is the Academic Lead of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Greenwich. He was Visiting Professor for Urban Equity and the Global Agenda at TU Wien.

"Drawing together insights from a diverse range of cities, this rich collection explores both the precarity and the potential of the always unsettled nature of our urban settlements."Fran Tonkiss, Professor of Sociology, LSE, London, UK"Unsettled Urban Space adds insight on urban dwellers' shock at the rising contingency of their lives, the lived sense of 'permanent temporariness' and the embodied tensions of migrancy. The book addresses the loss of the assurance and tranquility that the European and other colonial conceptions of 'settling' and 'settlement' had assumed."Rob Shields, H.M.Tory Chair and Professor of Human Geography and Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

• 1. Urban Space Unsettled: The Unravelling of Routines, Temporalities and Contestations in Urban StudiesTihomir Viderman, Sabine Knierbein, Sybille Frank, Elina Kränzle, Nikolai Roskamm and Ed WallPart I: Urban Routines 2. Urban Routines: An IntroductionTihomir Viderman and Sybille Frank3. Vietnamese Hip Hop Don’t Stop: Unsettling Normative Ideas of Gender around the BlockSandra Kurfürst4. Unsettled ‘Publicness’ and the Embodied Appropriation of Iktinou Street in ThessalonikiEvangelia Athanassiou5. Unsettling Planning Practices: From Accommodation to Dwelling in HamburgDominique Peck, Anna Richter, Christopher Dell and Bernd Kniess6. (Un)Settling Remembrance in Public Space: The Performance of a Heroic National Narrative in the Austrian National Holiday Celebrations at Vienna’s HeldenplatzElina Kränzle7. Berlin’s Neighborhoods in the Tourist Trap? Local Routines Unsettled by New Urban TourismStefan Brandt, Sybille Frank and Anna Laura Raschke8. Disrupted, Unsettled, Contested: Working Homelessness in Silicon ValleyRafael EsslPart II: Urban Temporalities9. Urban Temporalities: An IntroductionEd Wall and Sabine Knierbein10. (Un)Settling Home in Dubai Racha Daher11. Aging in Cities: Everyday Unsettling, Planning and DesignAngelika Gabauer12. From Cleaning to Cleansing: Maintenance as an Urban Development Practice at Paddington Waterside, LondonEd Wall13. The Gentrification of Chicago’s Cabrini Green and the Temporalities of Urban ChangeJudit Bodnar14. ‘And the Straw Cottage to a Palace Turns’: The Foundation of Birmingham Library as Civic GroundMichael Dring15. Property as Practice: The Collective Landholding Patterns of Black ChurchesGabriel CuéllarPart III: Urban Contestations16. Urban Contestations: An IntroductionElina Kränzle and Nikolai Roskamm17. ‘Ni Una Menos’: Practices, Aims and Achievements of a Grassroots Women’s Movement Against Femicide and Patriarchal Relations in ArgentinaMaría de la Paz Toscani, Paula Rosa and Regina Vidosa18. Setting, Setzung, Sedimentation: Political Conflict and Radical Democracy in Urban PlanningGabu Heindl19. (Un)Settling Urban Cultural Politics: New York’s People’s Cultural Plan and the Dislocation of GhostsFriederike Landau-Donnelly20. From Dispute, to Controversy, to Crisis: Conceptualizing Unsettling Dynamics in The HagueNanke Verloo21. Served but Unsettled: The Contentious Side of Services for the HomelessMassimo Bricocoli and Simon Güntner22. The Challenges of Consensus, Conflict and Democratic Participation in Turbulent WatersSophie Watson