Seeding Urban Transformation

Tactical Urbanism for Systemic Regeneration

Chris L. Smith, Suzanne Ewing, Lily Chi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

350 Seiten

2026
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-981-95-3557-6 (ISBN)

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Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity. A collection of case studies across disciplines and geographies, the book focuses on critical and creative provocations that negotiate between the tactical and the systemic, for positive change and urban liveability.

Urban intervention is seen as a story that wavers between the material detail of cities and the dynamics of urban lives. Chapters explore urban analysis and action that push against property and real-estate pre-figurations, explore technologies that coax, co-opt and disrupt, expose overlooked infrastructures. Heterogeneity may resist wholescale development, propagating large scale ripples of positive change that reorient the way the urban is conceived. The authors aim to offer a coherent conversation around precise and punctual urban regeneration undertaken in small-scale and politically astute manners, building knowledge for agents of intervention, such as architects, planners, urbanists and community builders.

Chris L. Smith is Professor of Architectural Theory in the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at The University of Sydney, Australia. Suzanne Ewing is Professor of Architectural Criticism in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) at The University of Edinburgh, UK. Lily Chi is Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) at Cornell University, USA.

Part 1: Tactical Engagements.- Chapter 1: Architectural Silence in a Vibrant City: The Garage as a Clearing.- Chapter 2: It s not sexy stuff : Incremental urban improvement in central Johannesburg.- Chapter 3: Fluid Commons: Towards Infrastructures of Production and Care in the.- Chapter 4: On Ditching: Towards Tactical Grounding in the Black Dirt.- Part 2: Seminal Technologies.- Chapter 5: Harnessing New Frameworks for Spatial Equity and New Spatial Assets: A Harlem Study.- Chapter 6: The Hack: Disrupting and Seeding Change.- Chapter 7: The Violence of the Off-scenes: The Gap Between the Petroleum Production and Consumption.- Part 3: Strategic Events.- Chapter 8: Urban Seeding as Multispecies Politics: Louis Le Roy's Ecocathedral.- Chapter 9: A Design Perspective of Participatory Placemaking With(in) Publics and Places.- Chapter 10: Planting Communities: Small Urban Green Spaces as a Socio-Spatial Infrastructural Strategy in Taipei City.- Chapter 11: Conversation with Natura Futura.- Part 4: Systemic change.- Chapter 12: Encounters in the Urban Mesocosm: Charting entanglements between humans and nonhumans in Berlin-Wilmersdorf.- Chapter 13: Minor Infrastructuralism.- Chapter 14: The Logistic Time of Unsettlement.- Chapter 15: Public Spaces Reimagined: The Influence of Minor Urbanism.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.11.2025
Zusatzinfo	40 Illustrations, color
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Technik ► Architektur
Schlagworte	adaptive reuse • architectural acupuncture • architectural intervention • city parks • City Transformation • Guerilla Urbanism • public spaces • SDG11 • small green spaces • spatial planning • sustainability • Sustainable Urban Development • Tactical urbanism • urban ecology • Urban Intervention • Urban parks • urban planning • Urban Resilience
ISBN-10	981-95-3557-3 / 9819535573
ISBN-13	978-981-95-3557-6 / 9789819535576
Zustand	Neuware