Lurking in the bushes: informality, illicit activity and transitional green space in Berlin and Detroit

Draus, Paul; Haase, Dagmar; Napieralski, Jacob; Qureshi, Salman; Roddy, Juliette

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“…Not exclusively in Halle but also in many other regrowing cities, this diversity of population trends creates pressure on urban land that is open, vacant but developed, or green (Wolff and Haase 2019). Even semi-public green spaces with high recreational value, such as allotment gardens, have been sacrificed for new housing estates for mostly high-and medium-income households (Spilková and Vágner 2016), not to mention successive green or wilderness areas, which have no real lobby to be maintained (Draus et al 2021). However, many districts in formerly shrinking cities are still not built up.…”

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Enabling ecosystem services at the neighborhood scale while allowing for urban regrowth: the case of Halle, Germany

Haase¹,

Wolff²

2022

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Cities that begin to regrow after a long period of decline and land abandonment are under pressure to provide comfortable housing conditions in preferred neighborhoods for their residents. On the other hand, these cities should preserve interim green spaces that result from decline because these spaces are a real treasure for densifying cities. Using the case of the city of Halle in post-socialist Eastern Germany, we explore four land use alternatives for neighborhood development close to what might happen: (1) urban densification, (2) spacious housing, (3) the green city, and (4) the edible city. We seek to discover opportunities for regrowth and sustainable land use development by applying the ecosystem services and green points frameworks to a set of land use transition rules. Land use change has been defined for strategic development areas according to the Master Plan and complementary visions of land change. The results of the study provide highly interesting insights into how both regrowth and greening can be enabled in densifying neighborhoods and what types of green are most effective in providing carbon storage and summer heat regulation. Moreover, gardens, as central elements of the edible city concept, were found to be flexible in implementation in very differently dynamic neighborhoods by providing multi-functional spaces for ecosystem services such as climate regulation, local food production, daily recreation, and nature experience. Results demonstrate that ecosystem services benefit flows increase only in districts where real estate pressure is low. In districts with growing population numbers, green spaces are reduced. This may result in increased injustice in green space availability seeing as we have modeled a recreational space per capita of < 9 m² in the Southern Suburb, whereas an increase to almost 70 m² was simulated in the shrinking, prefabricated Newtown. Most importantly, modeling the narratives of the Master Plan in a spatially explicit way demonstrates unused potential for greening in Halle. Thus, we conclude that urban planning should make regular use of such land use alternative to look for hidden combined visions of green and growth in a formerly shrinking city.

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Enabling ecosystem services at the neighborhood scale while allowing for urban regrowth: the case of Halle, Germany

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2022

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Consumers, curations, ‘community’, contestation and the time of COVID-19. Linkages and perspectives

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2022

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Reification of ‘community’ and community engagement by professional curators of material culture has recently been critiqued in ways which highlight the diversity of cultural identities and priorities among the general public. When not acting as coherent local communities under professional supervision, people are otherwise curating culture in public space within frameworks of spiritual and creative expression, place significance and identity. Employing primarily secondary sources, I address recent outdoor public curation practices in the West, and consider such deposits in relation to cultural-heritage management, a perspective in which they have hitherto been little addressed. Although these practices typically use accumulations of themed objects to achieve visibility and audience, I conclude that they are ultimately more focused on the individual than on the community, with linkages within and between them highly digitally enabled. Apparently intensified by the effects of recent COVID-19 travel lockdowns, the practices are also linked by their typical colonization of transit spaces (thereby accessing audiences who are also expected participants), by their conscious ephemerality (with deliberate innocence about end destinations of the objects used), and by their use of mundane consumer artefacts. All these features pose challenges to their management, and curated deposits are often contested or removed by official curators or managers of public space, even as the same entities appropriate similar tropes to engage customers. With resurgent interest in tangible culture and physical place following pandemic-era overloading in the virtual domain, with travel habits potentially using different routes, at altered times, and with use of social media continuing to grow, such activities may see increased participation. This analysis suggests that imaginative proactive official treatment of these curations (e.g. by municipal authorities, heritage site curators, rangers or other property owners/managers) could avoid conflict with creators and also help reduce enduring public ‘innocence’ about the disposability of consumer objects. Treatment could involve encouraging ongoing adaptation (digitally recorded and disseminated) of the curated objects in situ by their transitory public audiences.

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Lurking in the bushes: informality, illicit activity and transitional green space in Berlin and Detroit

Cited by 5 publications

References 39 publications

Enabling ecosystem services at the neighborhood scale while allowing for urban regrowth: the case of Halle, Germany

Enabling ecosystem services at the neighborhood scale while allowing for urban regrowth: the case of Halle, Germany

Popular but exclusive: How can lower socio-economic status groups win access to urban green spaces?

Consumers, curations, ‘community’, contestation and the time of COVID-19. Linkages and perspectives

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