Urban-Rural Assembly - by Anke Hagemann & Sigrun Langner & Wolfgang Wende & Li Fan & Maria Frölich-Kulik & Ava Lynam & Gaoli Xiao (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

As our planet is becoming increasingly urbanized, the ways we think about cities and urbanism are also being fundamentally reconfigured. However, current urban planning approaches often remain stuck in urban-rural dualisms that do not reflect the multilayered interrelationships and material flows of goods and people in these increasingly interconnected urban-rural regions.
The Urban-Rural Assembly handbook brings together reflections and best practices using the example of dynamically transforming living labs in an urban-rural region in eastern China. With the help of innovative methods and analytical concepts, this region is being captured from multiple perspectives in order to identify important starting points for a sustainable transformation of wider territories. The book provides practical guidance on how to collaboratively investigate, envision, and plan today's urban-rural regions worldwide.

• Handbook for the sustainable development of urban-rural regions
• Planning aid for transformation processes in dynamic urban areas
• Comprehensive material on Living Labs in eastern China

About the Author

Anke Hagemann is acting Professor at Habitat Unit, Technische
Universität Berlin, and lead Principal Investigator of "Urban-Rural
Assembly." She researches and publishes on city-hinterland
relationships, global commodity circulation and urban spaces, holiday
architectures, and urban mega-events.

Ava Lynam is
Researcher within the "Urban-Rural Assembly" project at the China Center
(CCST) and PhD candidate at Habitat Unit, both at TU Berlin. Her
research explores mobility, socio-spatial inequality, and the translocal
production of space at globally connected borderland regions in China
and Southeast Asia.

Gaoli Xiao is Researcher within the
"Urban-Rural Assembly" team at Habitat Unit, TU Berlin, and PhD
candidate at the Center for Development Studies (ZEF), University of
Bonn. Her research engages with critical migration theories,
neoliberalism, power, and social justice.

Wolfgang Wende
is Head of Research Area Landscape, Ecosystems and Biodiversity at the
Leibniz-Institute of Ecological and Regional Development and one of the
Principal Investigators in the "Urban-Rural Assembly" project . His
research strongly focuses on German and international Mitigation
Regulation Systems (IMR), biodiversity offsets and habitat banking.

Li
Fan was Senior Researcher at the chair of Habitat Unit at Technische
Universität Berlin and coordinator of the "Urban-Rural Assembly"
project. Her primary research area is urban and rural regeneration, as
well as policy and governance of urban transformation.

Sigrun
Langner is Professor of landscape architecture and landscape planning
at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and one of the Principal Investigators in
the "Urban-Rural Assembly" research project. Her research focuses on
"rurban landscapes" as an expression of complex urban-rural
interrelationships, incorporating mapping methods as practices of
knowledge and idea generation in large-scale landscape planning and
design.

Maria Frölich-Kulik is Senior Researcher at the
chair of Landscape Architecture and Planning of the Bauhaus-Universität
Weimar and part of the "Urban-Rural Assembly" team. She specializes in
researching rurban landscapes, urban-rural transformation processes and
co-creative planning strategies from building to regional scale.

Laura
Henneke is Researcher at the Habitat Unit at the Technische Universität
Berlin and part of the "Urban-Rural Assembly" team. Her research
interests include infrastructures, global commodity chains, global
corridors and the use of visual methods to investigate socio-spatiality.

Lukas Pappert is Researcher at the Habitat Unit at
Technische Universität Berlin and part of the "Urban-Rural Assembly"
team. His scientific and practical activities focus on the investigation
and further development of tools for the sustainable and cooperative
transformation of urban-rural regions.