TY - CHAP A1 - Viderman, Tihomir A1 - Knierbein, Sabine A1 - Kränzle, Elina A1 - Frank, Sybille A1 - Roskamm, Nikolai A1 - Wall, Ed T1 - Urban Space Unsettled: The Unraveling of Routines, Temporalities and Contestations in Urban Studies T2 - Unsettled Urban Space: Routines, Temporalities and Contestations N2 - Contemporary urban space appears to be uncertain, presented with challenges and filled with threats. Rather than seeing this development as a transition from stable to unstable patterns of urban life, this chapter frames a proposition: Urban space has always been an unsettled ground unfolding through the sedimentation of routines, temporalities and contestations. In this chapter ‘unsettled’ is introduced as an open and speculative analytical lens, involving synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and interweaving social, cultural and political readings of urban life. With the focus on contingent and troubled relationships among (collective) bodies, space and society, ‘unsettled’ is identified as a manifestation, motivation, cause and target of social change, which is consolidated, modulated and contested across multiple dimensions of urban life. It may stretch or redefine social orders, urban infrastructures and everyday life, while unlocking potentials for moments in history to turn out differently. Y1 - 2022 SN - 9781000799620 SN - 9780367258610 SN - 9780367258603 U6 - https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429290237-1 SP - 1 EP - 15 PB - Routledge CY - New York ER -