From squatters to creatives. An innovation perspective on temporary use in planning

Abstract

Practices that originate outside the traditional constraints of planning can be sources of planning innovation. This paper researches how temporary use shifted from an element of alternative lifestyles to a strategically embedded procedure of planning in Germany. The paper reconstructs this long-term process of collective reinterpretation by focusing on a semantic layer of innovation discourses, a pragmatic layer of actions and practices as well as the institutional setting as the innovation’s grammar. Based on results of quantitative and qualitative document analyses and semi-structured interviews, it separates the innovation process into five interlinked phases and shows how novel practices initially gained relevance within a few places with extraordinary conditions. Promoted by a new generation of urbanists and diverse framing discourses, temporary use became mobile and succeeded in having a significant influence on planning in Germany.

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