The Ideal of the Broken-down: Porous States of Disrepair

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1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. Porous City-From Metaphor to Urban Agenda 9
4. Reflections on the Term
5. Porosity—Porous City 17
6. News from Naples? An Essay on Conceptual Narratives 20
7. Porous—Notes on the Architectural History of the Term 26
8. Urban Porosity and the Right to a Shared City 32
9. Drifting Clouds: Porosity as a Paradigm 38
10. The Ideal of the Broken-down: Porous States of Disrepair 42
11. Porous Iridescences 48
12. Porosity: Why This Figure Is Still Useful 50
13. Architecture and Urban Design
14. Exploring the Unforeseen—Porosity as a Concept 58
15. Still Here while Being There—About Boundaries and Thresholds 60
16. Negotiating Porosity 64
17. Deep Threshold 70
18. Porous and Hybrid: Conditions for the Complex City 76
19. Thinking about Staircases: Circulation Spaces in Residential Housing 79
20. Porosity of the Monolithic 82
21. Bigness and Porosity 84
22. Reintroducing Porosity 88
23. Space In-between 90
24. Theodor Fischer, Urban Spaces Munich 96
25. Ambiguous Figure and Cloud 100
26. Producing Space and Acting
27. Performativity, Sensuality, Temporary Interventions, Negotiation 108
28. What Can Architecture Do? Blueprint for a Porous Architecture Museum 110
29. The “Curated” City—Art in Public Space 114
30. Building Vibrant Environments 119
31. Porosity and Open Form 122
32. WandererUni around the World 126
33. Improvised City 132
34. Does the City Blur All Its Traces? 136
35. Open Leipzig, 2009 142
36. Salsa Urbana 144
37. Beyond the Wall The Tentative Collective 148
38. Urban Regulations and Planning
39. About Legal Frameworks, Basic Politics, and Tactics 152
40. Toward a New Land Reform 154
41. Urbanes Gebiet 158
42. The Porous City Cannot Be Planned! 162
43. Cities in Suspension 167
44. A City Is an Apple Tree 170
45. Porosity—Is Munich a Porous City? 174
46. Just Design It: Porosity as Leeway for Designing Urban Space 178
47. Cairo’s Advanced Informality 182
48. Cairo Episodes 188
49. Urban Territoriality and Strategies
50. Moving from the Macro- to the Microscale in the Anthropocene 198
51. The City in the Anthropocene—Multiple Porosities 200
52. A New Water Metabolism: Porosity and Decentralization 205
53. Holes in the Future City: Java’s Volcanoes 210
54. Porous or Porridge City? 218
55. The Connected and Multiscalar City: Porosity in the Twenty-first Century 222
56. Urban Landscape Infiltrations 226
57. Porosity as a Structural Principle of Urban Landscapes 230
58. Detecting Porosity
59. Hanging Around in the Urban Field 238
60. Porosity in Public Spaces of Migration 241
61. When Commons Become Common 248
62. St. Louis 1875–2025 254
63. Contested Porosities 260
64. Bahnhofsviertel 266
65. From Diversity to Porosity 272
66. Porous Boundary Spaces in the Beijing Old City 276
67. From Counterinsurgency to Urban Quality 280
68. Flows, Processes, and Weak Urbanization in Mexico City 286
69. Situation 290
70. Accentuate the Positive… 296
71. Contributors / Authors 302
72. Picture Credits / Impressum 304