Porous city from metaphor to urban agenda

Includes bibliographical references.

Porosity : porous city / Sophie Wolfrum -- News from Naples? an essay on conceptual narratives / Michael Koch -- Porous : notes on the architectural history of the term / Dietrich Erben -- Urban porosity and the right to a shared city / Stavros Stavrides -- Drifting clouds : porosity as a paradigm / Maren Harnack -- The ideal of the broken-down : porous states of disrepair / Giorgia Aquilar -- Porous iridescences / Eduard Bru -- Porosity : why this figure is still useful / Paola Viganò -- Exploring the unforeseen : porosity as a concept / Christian Zöhrer -- Still here while being there : about boundaries and thresholds / Sophie Wolfrum -- Negotiating porosity / Christoph Heinemann -- Deep threshold / Stephen Bates, Bruno Krucker -- Porous and hybrid : conditions for the complex city / Rita Pinto de Freitas -- Thinking about staircases : circulation spaces in residential housing / Francesca Fornasier -- Porosity of the monolithic / Uta Graff -- Bigness and porosity / Margitta Buchert -- Reintroducing porosity / Gunther Laux -- Space In-between / Doris Zolle -- Theodor Fischer, urban spaces Munich / Markus Lanz -- Ambiguous figure and cloud / Alban Janson -- Performativity, sensuality, temporary interventions, negotiation / Heiner Stengel -- What can architecture do? Blueprint for a porous architecture museum / Angelika Fitz -- The "curated" city : art in public space / Hanne Rung -- Building vibrant environments / Alex Römer -- Porosity and open form / Christopher Dell, Bernd Kniess, Dominique Peck, Anna Richter -- WandererUni around the world / Ton Matton -- Improvised city / Dimitris Theodoropoulos -- Does the city blur all its traces? / Heiner Stengel -- Open Leipzig, 2009 / Sofia Dona -- Salsa Urbana / Alissa Diesch -- Beyond the wall / The Tentative Collective -- About legal frameworks, basic politics, and tactics Imke Mumm -- Toward a new land reform / Florian Hertweck -- Urbanes Gebiet / Sophie Wolfrum -- The porous city cannot be planned! / Imke Mumm -- Cities in suspension / Sofia Dona -- A city is an apple tree / Alex Lehnerer -- Porosity : is Munich a porous city? / Elisabeth Merk -- Just design it : porosity as leeway for designing urban space / Nikolai Frhr. von Brandis -- Cairo's advanced informality / Marc Angélil, Cary Siress -- Cairo episodes / Monique Jüttner -- Moving from the macro- to the micro scale in the Anthropocene / Sofia Dona -- The city in the Anthropocene : multiple porosities / Undine Giseke -- A new water metabolism : porosity and decentralization / Cornelia Redeker -- Holes in the future city : Java's volcanoes / Philip Ursprung -- Porous or porridge city? / Kees Christiaanse -- The connected and multiscalar city : porosity in the twenty-first century / Alain Thierstein -- Urban landscape infiltrations / Alexandra Bauer, Julian Schaefer, Soeren Schoebel, Yuting Xie -- Porosity as a structural principle of urban landscapes / Udo Weilacher -- Hanging around in the urban field / Norbert Kling, Florian Kurbasik -- Porosity in public spaces of migration / Ela Kaçel -- When commons become common / Max Ott -- St. Louis 1875-2025 / Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Yü Chen, Sabine Zahn -- Contested porosities / Norbert Kling, Carsten Jungfer -- Bahnhofsviertel / Florian Kurbasik -- From diversity to porosity / Shan Yang, Jie Sun -- Porous boundary spaces in the Beijing Old City / Tianyu Zhu -- From counterinsurgency to urban quality / Frank Eisenmann -- Flows, processes, and weak urbanization in Mexico City / Christof Göbel, Elizabeth Espinosa Dorantes -- Situation / Markus Lanz -- Accentuate the positive... / Karl Detering, Simon Beesley.

What is the porous city? How could porosity become an urban concept? Well-known authors from the worlds of architecture, urbanism, and landscape design embark on a search for new concepts for a life-enhancing city, with reference to this enigmatic term. The term refers to the overlaying and interweaving of spaces and structures, to urban textures and their architectural properties and qualities -- to cities with radically mixed urban functions.