Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations, edited By Tihomir Viderman, Sabine Knierbein, Elina Kränzle, Sybille Frank, Nikolai Roskamm, Ed Wall includes the essay „UNSETTLING PLANNING PRACTICES: From Accommodation to Dwelling in Hamburg“, written by former and current members of our UD team: Dominique Peck, Anna Richter, Christopher Dell and Bernd Kniess. The collaborative text talks about our project „Begegnungshaus Poppenbüttel“, planning and building with, the meaning of dwelling and politics of planning practices.

About the Book:

While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and unsettling through open and speculative analysis. […]

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.