ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses one of the main resulting challenges: developing contemporary urban areas towards more living quality, spatial justice and environmental sustainability. It explores the fuzzy zone between real estate and neighbourhood development. The chapter examines a current redevelopment project of a large Swiss real estate investment foundation, which invests in valuable real estate. It mobilizes key Actor Network Theory (ANT) concepts as well as some ideas from complexity thinking in order to trace processes and to map out emergent practices in contemporary planning and inner urban development. The chapter focuses on important processes in the course of urban development, in which the planner or the local municipality and thus the usual suspects in most planning stories only play a minor role. It argues that this should be understood as one aspect of contemporary urban development. The chapter concerns a residential neighbourhood adjacent to the airport in the heart of the Zurich metropolitan area in Switzerland.
