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Enge. Practices in urban densification

What appears to be a problem in many German cities is particularly evident in Freiburg - not least because of its geographical location and popularity as a university town: scarcity of space and use of space, higher prices and heavier crowds. Small and medium-sized companies do not find office space, start up co-working spaces, establish cultural pop-up galleries, draw families and students out of the city, and Freiburg reveals many of those practices that actors use to live, work and live in an increasingly limited space to be able to live.

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The research-oriented study project reveals how actors acquire urban space, how they search for innovative, varying modes of use in the public and private, and also allows an empirical survey of individual and collective evaluations of these initiatives. Why, for example, is the reorganization of the former Barracks declared to housing as an architectural and ecological flagship project, whereas the transformation from smaller industrial to residential areas is heavily criticized?

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The participants will conduct their own empirical studies. At the end of the two-semester course, they summarize their findings in a book and present them in the Freiburg city area.

 

Head: Dr. Sarah May