The latest volume of the Dérive magazine arises questions on the ability of cities to adapt and recover after suffering adversities.

Resilience, rhythm and public space is the title of the latest issue of Dérive, the German magazine on urban research. In the belief that public space is the spatial catalyst for social change, the publication aims to understand and strengthen certain places through the debate on resilience, which refers to the ability of cities to recover and adapt after suffering adversities. Do public spaces serve as flexible backbones to provide a city with the robustness to adapt to drastic transformations? To what extent can obsolescences be rethought and recycled as places of transition full of inherent potentials, instead of being replaced by newly created public spaces?

The magazine offers several answers to these questions, with the help of collaborators as Nikolai Roskamm (urban theorist and photographer from Berlin), Stéphane Tonnelat (Parisian sociologist who studies Manhattan), Richard Woditsch (architect from Nuremberg working in Athens with vernacular sites of large and small scale), Karin Normann (ethnographer from Stockholm interested in urban life in Pristina), Susanne Prehl and Senem Zeybekoğlu Sadri (two landscape architects from Hamburg and Istanbul reflecting on the risks of the Turkish city) and Ian Cook (British anthropologist drawn to life on the streets of Budapest).

[View the web of the publication here]