Stratis, Socrates: Urban on the Move

With a Latourian Actor-Network Theory approach, Urban on the Move follows a young team‘s transformative journey of implementing the Europan 4 winning project at Heraklion‘s old city waterfront in Crete, Greece. During the trajectory, the team mediates several controversies that become decisive for the project‘s outcome. Together with Hercules, a fictional character and friend of the team, they accompany the transformation of the competition‘s strategies into implemented urban practices. In a unique storytelling format, the author unpacks the team‘s diplomacy skills in promoting their idea of an open and porous city welcoming heterogeneous publics-laying bare the informal and unsaid aspects of the implementation process. With forewords by Didier Rebois and Albena Yaneva a compelling analysis of urban in the making written in a unique storytelling format an inspiration for urban ers in uncertain environments