Graphic with colourful shapes

Public – urban spaces for everyone

Book presentation

August2025
21
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17:00
Stefan Rettich, Sabine Tastel

21 August 2025, 19:00
Book Presentation: The Obsolete City – Pathways to Circularity
with Stefan Rettich and Sabine Tastel

Accompanying the exhibition Fifty Something Gasoline Stations – Taking Stock of a Disappearing Urban Element.

Petrol stations are more than just infrastructure for cars. They serve as small local suppliers, places of communication, spaces of nostalgia, glowing landmarks – but also as representatives of a vast fossil fuel industry. For decades, they have been a familiar part of our urban landscape. But petrol stations are gradually disappearing: the transition to sustainable mobility and electromobility is leading to the obsolescence of the classic fossil-fuel station, making it a relic of a bygone era.

The exhibition documents all operational and, since 2020, closed fossil-fuel stations in the city of Frankfurt am Main, accompanied by explanatory infographics.

Public – urban spaces for everyone
Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA Hessen e.V.
Das Projekt stellt öffentliche Räume zur Diskussion und sensibilisiert für eine erweiterte Vorstellung von öffentlichem Raum und dessen Bedeutung für die demokratische Gesellschaft.