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Operationalizing the open city concept: A case study of Berlin

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  • Grace Abou Jaoude
  • Majd Murad
  • Olaf Mumm
  • Vanessa Miriam Carlow

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Framed by a utopian rhetoric, the Open City emerges as a potential guiding principle to the contradictory tendencies and calamities of cities. As an elusive concept with a panoply of context-bound interpretations, the Open City is an open-ended project that manifests through different situations across the city. The article aims to explore different attributes of the Open City, in the context of Berlin, based on a thorough literature review and operationalizes the concept using a systematized approach. Results revealed that openness in Berlin followed a center-periphery pattern, where areas that fostered a high degree of openness were mostly found in inner-city neighborhoods while a lower potential of openness prevailed along the edges. By analyzing the conditions of openness in relation to the built environment, we sought to contribute toward a better understanding of the Open City concept and provide an approach for analyzing openness that can be adapted to different geographic contexts.

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  • Grace Abou Jaoude & Majd Murad & Olaf Mumm & Vanessa Miriam Carlow, 2024. "Operationalizing the open city concept: A case study of Berlin," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 51(3), pages 721-744, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:51:y:2024:i:3:p:721-744
    DOI: 10.1177/23998083231196016
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