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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Neto, Filipe Lacerda

Titel

Careful Urban Renewal in Kreuzberg, Berlin: International Bauausstellung Berlin 1987

Ist Teil von

• IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science, 2020-12, Vol.609 (1), p.12022

Ort / Verlag

IOP Publishing

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• International Architecture Exhibitions reinforce the negative idea of pre-established formal concepts in favour of a discussion rich in alternatives and with different thinking processes. Behutsame Stadterneuerung - 'careful urban renewal' - was established after a long conflict between the political and administrative systems in power and construction cooperatives, which had its decisive moment in 1975. The urbanism of the Modern Movement started to be abandoned and the building industry connected to the promotion of houses, often closely related to political parties, started to decay. The refurbishment and revival of a very specific neighbourhood with a significant plan in Berlin - Kreuzberg - called for measures to interweave and reorganise the old and the new, but also houses and industries. In this area, there was a proposal to create a better ecological quality that preserved the traditional atmosphere and sought ways to incorporate the political efforts to integrate foreign families. The 'careful urban renewal' programme was seen as a planning in close connection to the local situation to harmonise total and individual conditions. The conditions related to the urban space and the built should be connected to the social assumptions of daily life. This research is focused on the process developed in Kreuzberg and provides a general account of the difficulties that occurred in the framework of the 'careful urban renewal' programme. This big district of Berlin used to be a central area of the city but it became a peripheral area of West Berlin due to the political division of the city. The neighbourhood would become one of the areas appointed for IBA, whose role was to regenerate and revive the old substance of Kreuzberg and to rebuild the urban fabric, particularly building houses and social amenities.