With Tom Paints the Fence, the editors and contributors lay out groundbreaking elements for urban research and design by opening up assemblages, territories, and archive layers of the teaching and research project University of Neighborhoods – almost a decade after the experiment on the Elbe island Wilhelmsburg came to an end with the demolition of the building. While making this unique urban design project’s plentitude visible in terms of city as a produced totality, Tom Paints the Fence opens up a wide field of experiences and interpretative approaches. It invites readers to actively make their way through the material to render the University of Neighborhoods’ history fruitful for the present and the future.