Taking Action: Transforming Athens' Urban Landscapes - Paperback

by Norbert Kling (Editor), Tasos Roidis (Editor), Mark Michaeli (Editor)

Englische Ausgabe mit griechischen Abstracts / English edition with Greek abstracts

Taking Action r?kt die nachhaltige Gestaltung urbaner Transformation und die Vorbereitung dicht strukturierter Stadtr舫me auf zuk?ftige Herausforderungen in den Fokus. Wie lassen sich Klimawandel und r舫mliche Disparit舩en unter Krisenbedingungen und angesichts begrenzter r舫mlicher und sonstiger Ressourcen bew舁tigen? Wie knen ehrgeizige und umfassende Ziele mit der Realit舩 lokaler Bedingungen und Alltagsr舫men in Einklang gebracht werden? Und wie kann Wissen in Handeln umgesetzt werden?
W臧rend derzeit ?erall in Europa die grundlegenden r舫mlichen Beziehungen in St臈ten neu verhandelt werden, konzentrieren sich in Athen einige der dringlichsten urbanen Probleme und machen die Stadt zu einem einzigartigen Experimentierfeld. Die Autor*innen n臧ern sich diesen multidimensionalen Fragen aus verschiedenen Perspektiven an, um mliche Interventionsr舫me zu identifizieren, neue Transformationsmodelle vorzuschlagen und die Potenziale der urbanen Landschaften f? einen positiven Wandel zu aktivieren.

Author Biography

Norbert Kling is a researcher at the Chair of Sustainable Urbanism at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and partner at the practice zectorarchitects with offices in London and Munich. He trained as an architect and urban designer and holds a doctorate from the Department of Architecture at TUM. His research interests include conditions of asymmetric urban change and alternative spatial practices, as well as questions of concept formation, method, and process in the spatial and design disciplines.

Tasos (Anastasios) Roidis is an architect and landscape architect who graduated from ETH Zurich. He is a research and teaching associate at the Chair of Sustainable Urbanism at TUM, and previously worked at ETH Zurich's Urban Think-Tank. He explores strategies for more sustainable and livable futures in urban and peri-urban areas using the urban landscape of Athens and its many generic patterns as a case study. His practice is focused on the interdependencies between architecture, landscape, and public space.

Mark Michaeli is Professor for Sustainable Urbanism at the School of Engineering and Design at TUM. Since graduating from ETH Zurich with a degree in architecture, he has focused on research and teaching on sustainable urbanization and transformation strategies, as well as on designs for metropolitan peripheries, peri-urban zones, and rural areas. He has contributed to and been involved with the foundation of numerous research networks and programs, including SEC Future Cities Lab Singapore, EIT Climate-KIC, horizon2020, and the DFG-sponsored Urban Green Infrastructure doctoral program, as well as the Urban Age and Open City research projects.