Urban Design on the Move: Five Stories About Implementing a Winning Europan Project

With a Latourian Actor-Network Theory approach, Urban Design on the Move follows a young design teams transformative journey of implementing the Europan 4 winning project at Heraklions old city waterfront in Crete, Greece. During the design trajectory, the team mediates several controversies that become decisive for the projects outcome. Together with Hercules, a fictional character and friend of the team, they accompany the transformation of the competitions design strategies into implemented urban practices. In a unique storytelling format, the author unpacks the teams design diplomacy skills in promoting their idea of an open and porous city welcoming heterogeneous publicslaying bare the informal and unsaid aspects of the design implementation process.

With forewords by Didier Rebois and Albena Yaneva

• a compelling analysis of urban design in the making
• written in a unique storytelling format
• an inspiration for urban designers in uncertain environments