European planning history in the 20th century : : a continent of urban planning / / edited by Max Welch Guerra [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Guerra, Max Welch, 1956-
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : : Taylor & Francis,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 pages)

The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: The Continent of Urban Planning and Its Changing Historiography Max Welch Guerra
• Part 1: The Emergence of Contemporary Urban Planning
• 1. Historiography avant la lettre? On the Uses of History in Early Town Planning Manuals Helene Bihlmaier
• 2. Urban Hygiene and Slum Clearance as Catalysts: The Emergence of the Sanitary City and Town Planning Dirk Schubert
• 3. The Reverse of Urban Planning: First Steps for a Genealogy of Informal Urbanization in Europe Noel Manzano
• 4. The Beginning of the Urbanism Teaching in the Schools of Architecture of Madrid and Barcelona: From Trazado, Urbanizacion y Saneamiento de Poblaciones to Urbanologia Maria Cristina Garcia-Gonzalez
• 5. Rethinking Urban Extension and International Influences: Spain and the International Housing and Town Planning Congresses during the 1920s Maria Castrillo Romon and Miguel Fernandez-Maroto
• 6. Influences of European Urban Planning in post-war Spain: Pedro Bidagor Collection of the Historical Service Archive of the Official College of Architects of Madrid Alberto Sanz Hernando
• 7. Amenagement, embellissement et extension des villes: The French Law of 1919/1924 on Urban Plans Laurent Coudroy de Lille
• 8. Bending Interests and Blending Media in the Inter-war Modernism of Central Europe: Wohnung und Werkraum Exhibition Marcelo Sagot Better
• Part 2: Functions and Practices of Urban Planning under Changing Social Orders 1. Swedish Planning and Development in the 20th and 21st Centuries Ann Maudsley
• 2. Bratislava under Fascist Dictatorship Martin Pekar
• 3. French Tools for Urban Heritage Protection in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: From Groundbreaking Systematization to a General Trend toward Integration of Planning Instruments Victor Perez-Eguiluz
• 4. History and Heritage: The Reconstruction of Blitzed Cities Peter J. Larkham
• 5. Planning GDR and Czechoslovakia: The Scale Question under State Socialism Azmah Arzmi
• 6. Transportation and Urban Planning under State Socialism: The Tramway in Medium-Sized Cities of the USSR, GDR and CSSR in the 1960s and 1970s Elvira Khairullina and Luis Santos y Ganges
• 7. Contemporary European City-Making Process: Materialisation-Emptying-Regeneration on Large Land Properties Federico Camerin
• 8. Elective Affinities: The Recovery of Historic Seminal Ideas of European Urbanism for a Sustainable Urban Design in the Late 20th Century Juan Luis de las Rivas
• Part 3: Interpretation of the Twentieth Century Planning History
• 1. Is There a European Planning Tradition? Stephen V. Ward
• 2. European Planning History in the 20th century as a Reflexive Concept Harald Bodenschatz
• 3. The Anarchist Strain of Planning History: Pursuing Peter Hall's Cities of Tomorrow Thesis through the Geddes Connection, 1866-1976 Jose Luis Oyon and Jere Kuzmanic
• 4. Mapping Transnational Planning History in Port City Regions - London, Rotterdam, Hamburg Carola Hein
• 5. A Look to Transgressive Planning Practices: Calling for Alternative Sources and ActorsAndrea Gimeno
• 6. Neglected Narratives of Post-war Italian Cities: Actors and Rationalities in the Shaping of the Ordinary Residential LandscapeGaia Caramellino and Nicole De Togni
• 7. The End of the Planned City? Urban planning after 1989 Florian Urban
• 8. Interpreting 20th Century European Planning History: Eight Theses Max Welch Guerra.