Architecture is an interminable business. Modern construction projects are planned years in advance; those being envisioned today will achieve realization only years in the future. But without a clear vision that brings us closer to the objective of a truly liveable city, statements of intent will never be translated into reality. The present publication, Gestaltungsleitlinien Stadtraum am Beispiel Dresden (Design Guidelines for Urban Space with Reference to Dresden), is intended primarily as a guidebook, and aims to foster the orientation around a shared vision for clients, planners, and architects.

Yes, that's what I'd like, the Baltic in front of me, Friedrichstraße behind me The question goes beyond Kurt Tucholsky's dreamscapes; the cities we inhabit have already been built, and they might have gaps and ruptures that are reflective of social turmoil. How, then, can we deal with existing structures in a way that allows truly liveable cities to emerge in the futureor to be preserved in the present?

• Striking graphic illustrations visualizing urbanistic, urban planning, and architectural design principles
• An analysis of Dresden's urban structure and proposals for the further development of the existing architectural inventory

• Nine theses on the development of building culture in Dresden

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  Stefan Szuggat has headed the department for environment, planning and housing in Dortmund since 2023. Before that, he spent twelve years as head of the Department of Urban Planning and Mobility in Dresden. After working in the urban planning department, he has held leading functions in planning offices in Hemer und Neuss. He has been a member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) since 2022.

  Henrike Schoper worked in various architectural offices in Basel and Berlin before establishing her own office-schoper.schoper-together with Tom Schoper in 2000. Beginning in 2007, she was a research associate with the Chair of Public Buildings, and Design at the TU Dresden; in 2012-2017, she completed her dissertation on Aldo Rossi's design theory for a "Cittá analoga." Since 2023, she has been a professor of design and building within existing contexts at the Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT).

  Tom Schoper worked at the architectural office of Benedict Tonon in Berlin beginning in 1994, before founding an architectural practice-schoper.schoper- together with Henrike Schoper. Beginning in 2004, he was an academic associate with the Chair of Architectural Delineation at the TU Dresden, where he received a doctorate in 2009 for his dissertation Zur Identität von Architektur (Bielefeld: transcript 2010). From 2019 until 2021, he held a professorship in design and spatial design at the TU Darmstadt.