Who Plans the Planning? : : Architecture, Politics, and Mankind /

Who Plans the Planning? : : Architecture, Politics, and Mankind / / Lucius Burckhardt; ed. by Jesko Fezer, Martin Schmitz.

From the 1950s, Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) focused on planning, design, and construction in a democracy. His astute observations and critical analysis have had a fundamental effect on the design of our environment, on teaching in the architectural/planning professions, and on our understanding of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
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Burckhardt, Lucius,
MitwirkendeR:
Fezer, Jesko,
Schmitz, Martin,
HerausgeberIn:
Fezer, Jesko,
Schmitz, Martin,
Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2019]
©2020
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Content
  • From Critical Urban Studies to the Science of Walking
  • Politics—Environment—Mankind
  • POLITICS
  • Urban Planning and Democracy (1957)
  • Construction: A Process with No Obligations to Historic Preservation (1967)
  • Political Decisions in Construction Planning (1970)
  • The Drawbacks of Leitbilder [Models] for Decision-Making (1971)
  • Who Plans the Planning? (1974)
  • Communication and the Built Environment (1978)
  • Between Patchwork and the Master Plan (1982) The Future Which Failed To Arrive (1982)
  • The Future Which Failed To Arrive (1982)
  • Architecture: An Art or A Science? (1983)
  • The End of Polytechnic Solvability (1989)
  • ENVIRONMENT
  • The Urban Crisis (1961)
  • The Revolution Did Not Happen (1964)
  • On the Value and Meaning of Urban Utopias (1968)
  • Signs of the Times (1973)
  • Aesthetic Issues in Architecture (1978)
  • Of Small Steps and Great Effects (1978)
  • Design Is Invisible (1980)
  • What Is Livability? On Quantifiable and Invisible Needs (1981)
  • The So-Called Urban Planning of the 1960s (1989)
  • Valuable Rubbish, the Limits of Care, and Destruction through Care (1991)
  • The City in the Year 2028 (1998)
  • MANKIND
  • Does Modern Architecture Make Us Unfree? (1961)
  • On Housing Needs (1970)
  • What Does the Citizen Expect of Urban Design? (1972)
  • Family and Home: Two Adaptable Systems (1975)
  • Public Taste, or: On the Shift in Aesthetic Evaluation (1977)
  • An Imaginary Visit (1977)
  • Learning from Squatters (1977)
  • DIY and the Construction Industry (1980)
  • No-Man’s-Land (1980)
  • The Architect’s Concept of Mankind (1980)
  • We Must Reclaim Public Space (1982)
  • Landscape and Motorcars (1988)
  • Bibliography
  • Biography
  • Index

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