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Rudolf Kohoutek, Christa Kamleithner and Ina Homeier-Mendes
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Ina Homeier-Mendes
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2003-06-25
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Economics of Temporary Uses in Vienna
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A Basic Urban Contradiction; Vacancies, Cycles of Buildings and their Uses; Management of Uncertainties, new Paradigms in Urban Planning
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The legislations of property and contracts are the basic elements of the legal system and the framework for all uses of space. However, the dynamics of urban uses are a strong opposition to the static of land property, which can be called a basic urban contradiction. These dynamics have increased: while temporary uses have been for connected with war, occupation and deficiency a long time, they have now become part of the new paradigms of flexibility and deregulation.
In this context a new - ambivalent - phenomena has aroused: vacancy. To a certain extent vacancies are normal elements in the cycles of the real estate market. However, the changes of this sector more and more allow gaps. Big companies now play an important role there; waiting for higher rents they can easily afford long vacancies. They also produce vacancies insofar as buildings are now often intended for very short usage and are then empty. This opens up a new - also quite ambivalent - field: temporary use.
Temporary uses are within the new dispositif of management - insofar they are coherent to the system, but maybe also in a way subversive. As they interrupt normal uses, they allow distance and self-reflection; they open potentials for communication with regard to city uses and therefore the possibility of participative processes. Introducing the factor time and therefore uncertainty, this leads to the long awaited transformation of urban planning, and possibly to new forms of consideration of social requests in accordance with the economic sphere. However, it could be that all this in the future is seen as part of the idea of civil society.
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