Lendlabor: diploma thesis, 2012. part 01: empirical research
"100% recycling first, (only) then rebuilding." The issue of vacancy in cities is exemplified in this thesis using a part of the district Lend in Graz. The objective is the creation of a vacancy catalogue through field studies and inspection of the site from various perspecitves, based on the working hypothesis "There is vacancy in Lend", in order to enable a discussion of innovative and forward looking ways for the regional restructuring and the city as a ressource. Lendlabor is supposed to illustrate the significance of availability of data concerning vacancy in order to enable the recycling of areas. For the empirical approximation to the laboratory, factors from economy, sociology, history and the current vacancy discussion in Europe were included in order to recognize existant potentials in the city’s structure and hence to combine new synergies for a useful reactivation of vacancies in scenarios.