Urban Contact Zones

Astrid Ley

ISBN 10: 3837676323 / ISBN 13: 9783837676327

Published by Transcript Verlag Dez 2025, 2025

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Neuware -Global trends as well as translocal exchanges and the everyday realities of local communities shape urban transformation. Turning to the idea of ¿contact zones¿, the contributors to this volume explore the spaces of encounters between agents of diverse perspectives and across different scales and boundaries. Through the lens of urban contact zones, they reflect on themes and projects of the Department of International Urbanism taking account of the past ten years and deliberating what is next in international urbanism. This volume offers a new perspective on diverse urban challenges to everyone engaged in urban research and design, policy discourse, and the development of transformative education.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Urban Contact Zones
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Dez 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837676323
• ISBN 13: 9783837676327
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 248W x 209H x 18D millimeters 248 millimeters width by 209 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 540 grams

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Synopsis

Global trends as well as translocal exchanges and the everyday realities of local communities shape urban transformation. Turning to the idea of ›contact zones‹, the contributors to this volume explore the spaces of encounters between agents of diverse perspectives and across different scales and boundaries. Through the lens of urban contact zones, they reflect on themes and projects of the Department of International Urbanism taking account of the past ten years and deliberating what is next in international urbanism. This volume offers a new perspective on diverse urban challenges to everyone engaged in urban research and design, policy discourse, and the development of transformative education.

About the Authors

Astrid Ley (Prof. Dr.) leitet den Lehrstuhl Internationaler Städtebau an der Universität Stuttgart und vertritt u.a. den internationalen Master-Studiengang »MSc Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design« (IUSD). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Informalität, Wohnungsversorgung, städtische Governance und Verstädterung.

Josefine Fokdal (Dr.-Ing.), geboren 1980 in Kopenhagen, arbeitet als Forscherin und Dozentin am Institut für Internationalen Städtebau der Universität Stuttgart. Nach ihrem Diplom in Architektur und Internationalem Städtebau an der TU Berlin (DE) und einem Master der Ball State University (USA) promovierte Josefine 2014 an der TU Berlin zum Thema: relationaler Raum im Kontext mit der Megastadt Guangzhou, China. Ihre Forschung und Publikationen umfassen die Bereiche Raumtheorie, Wohnen, Governance, Ko-produktive Prozesse und Urbanisierung mit einem geografischen Schwerpunkt auf Asien. Seit 2017 ist sie Mitherausgeberin von der Schriftenreihe Habitat International.