Philipp Misselwitz – författare

Urban Design Methods is a manual for reconciling contemporary approaches with increasingly complex demands in the shaping of urban living spaces. Architects and landscape architects, as well as city, regional, and landscape planners, often find that they are unable to do modern projects justice with their specialist skills alone. Cooperative approaches are needed to deal with both the complexity of raising questions and the growing number of affected parties who need to be involved. Urban design—understood as an inter- and transdisciplinary field at the interface of architecture, city and regional planning, landscape architecture, sociology, and the diverse stakeholders involved in any project—requires a compendium of adaptable methods to dissolve the boundaries between theory and praxis and between natural and social systems. For the first time, this book collects a broad spectrum of methods intended to support urban designers in deciphering the contexts in which they work, and help them attain a greater individual professional understanding. It clearly outlines the range of challenges and the constantly evolving areas of activity.

Urban Design Methods ist ein Handbuch, das zeitgenössische Herangehensweisen an die immer komplexer werdenden Anforderungen bei der Gestaltung urbaner Lebensräume vermittelt. Oft erfahren Architekt*innen, Landschaftsarchitekt*innen, Stadt-, Regional- und Landschaftsplaner*innen, dass sie heutigen Aufgaben mit ihren fachspezifischen Kenntnissen nicht wirklich gerecht werden können. Die Komplexität der Fragestellungen und die wachsende Zahl der betroffenen und zu beteiligenden Akteure erfordert kooperative Ansätze. Urban Design, verstanden als ein inter- und transdisziplinäres Tätigkeitsgebiet im Schnittfeld von Architektur, Stadt- und Regionalplanung, Landschaftsarchitektur, Soziologie und vielfältigen lebensweltlichen Akteuren, braucht ein Kompendium poröser Methoden, mit deren Hilfe die Grenzen zwischen Theorie und Praxis, zwischen natürlichen und sozialen Systemen aufgelöst werden. Dieses Buch versammelt erstmals ein weites Spektrum von Methoden, die Urban Designer dabei unterstützen sollen, den Kontext, in dem sie arbeiten, zu dechiffrieren und ein individuelles Berufsverständnis zu finden. Es umreißt anschaulich die Bandbreite der Herausforderungen und die beständig neu zu definierenden Handlungsfelder.

Energy is everywhere—yet the vast infrastructural networks that power our daily lives remain largely invisible. Accounting for three-quarters of global greenhouse gas emissions, the energy sector stands at the center of our climate crisis and the transformations needed to address it. This book examines energy supply as a spatial and material phenomenon, exploring the Berlin-Brandenburg capital region through maps, drawings, texts, and photographs. It reveals the hidden geographies connecting energy production and consumption across scales—from household transformations to citywide configurations and regional supply networks. Tracing the flow of fossil and renewable energy carriers through territories, towns, and streets, Power, Flows, and Transformation offers a multi-layered portrait of our energy landscapes past, present, and future. Graphic exploration of the interactions between energy supply and its spatial contexts Numerous maps, plans, and drawings depicting visible and invisible energy systems Holistic perspective on the development of the diverse energy landscapes in Berlin and Brandenburg

Recognizing the dire threats of climate collapse and mass extinction, the global initiative Bauhaus Earth convened a team of scientists, architects, spatial planners, and policymakers from around the world to author a manifesto. Toward Re-Entanglement: A Charter for the City and the Earth is a call for radical transformation. It challenges all those with a role in the conception, production, operation, and governance of the building sector to address the systemic ecological, climatic, and social impacts incurred by its activities. Twelve principles of "re-entanglement" guide the redesign of the entire life cycle of the urban realm: the reforming and rematerializing of the physical artifacts that comprise it, the reconfiguring of the socioeconomic structures that underpin it, and the reengaging of the bioregions that might sustainably supply it. In this way, the unprecedented convergence of the environmental and social crises we are causing offers powerful opportunities for systemic change.

Recognizing the dire threats of climate collapse and mass extinction, the global initiative Bauhaus Earth convened a team of scientists, architects, spatial planners, and policymakers from around the world to author a manifesto. Wiederverflechtungen: Eine Charta für unsere Städte und den Planeten is a call for radical transformation. It challenges all those with a role in the conception, production, operation, and governance of the building sector to address the systemic ecological, climatic, and social impacts incurred by its activities. Twelve principles of " re-entanglement" guide the redesign of the entire life cycle of the urban realm: the reforming and rematerializing of the physical artifacts that comprise it, the reconfiguring of the socioeconomic structures that underpin it, and the reengaging of the bioregions that might sustainably supply it. In this way, the unprecedented convergence of the environmental and social crises we are causing offers powerful opportunities for systemic change.

From the US-Mexico border to coastal Colombia, from Brazil to Bangladesh, scholarship on displacement and climate has grown in recent years, reframing climate change not as the sole driver of migration but as part of a complex matrix of economic, social, and political forces. Against this backdrop, this book addresses the climate–space–displacement nexus by foregrounding spatial imaginaries that inspire hopeful futures. Bringing together interdisciplinary contributions from geography, planning, anthropology, sociology, and architecture, it explores resistant and emerging spatialities of displacement. Structured around three sections—Shifting Grounds, Erratic Waters, and Lines of Flight—the volume suggests a shift in emphasis to seriously consider how individual and collective human agency necessarily entangles with ecological and geophysical forces. It engages with the appropriation and signification practices engendered by displaced subjects in shaping social and physical landscapes after the disappearance of their environments or in the generation of new situated ones.With contributions by Ignacio Farías, Silke Steets, Efadul Huq, Faranak Miraftab, Hannah Sender, Hanna Baumann, Joana Dabaj, Irina Rafliana, Lou Elena Bouey, Irit Katz, Ali Yahya, Florian Bonnefoi, Mennatallah Hamdy, Ayham Dalal, Enrique Coraza de los Santos, Catalina Elvira Espinosa Vega, Omar Galán, Maren Larsen, Austin Zeiderman, Mari Paz Agúndez, Ana Cláudia Cardoso, Carlos Tukano, Francesca Ceola, Qusay Amer, Juliana Canedo and Pablo Quiroga Devia.

Bilingual edition (English/Spanish) / Zweisprachige Ausgabe (spanisch/englisch) In view of rapidly progressing urbanization worldwide, informal settlements, especially in the cities of the global south must be a focus of our attention–because in the future, the majority of new city inhabitants will settle in these unplanned extensions of urban centers. The tools and methods of conventional urban planning have so far been unable to tackle this phenomenon. New approaches, combining top-down planning and bottom-up initiatives to create sustainable and viable living environments, are required.The Moravia Manifesto presents alternative planning approaches put forward by an international think-and-do tank, developed alongside local participants from the Moravia informal settlement at the heart of the Colombian metropolis Medellín. This new planning approach is contextualized by essays and international case studies. The urban coding planning approach demonstrates new ways in which planning, politics, economy, and administration can initiate and implement innovative and inclusive urban transformation processes together with local communities.