ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the influential strands of Stadtebau and Stadtlandschaft in the German language town planning tradition across three time periods: an unfolding phase, the modern period and a postmodern phase. The unfolding phase of the discipline of Stadtebau was marked by lively discussions in different disciplinary circles and the production of a stunningly broad theoretical body. The unfolding of modern urbanism in the German-speaking world began in the late 19th century, around two decades later than in England and France. During the 1950s, the functionalist city—following the congres internationaux d’Architecture moderne principles and aligning with the German tradition of the Stadtlandschaft—was realized globally. The main drivers of global exchange and the diffusion of Stadtebau and Stadtlandschaft between 1919 and 1959 were the economic crises of the 1920s and international experts' networks confronting the rebuilding of European cities after the war. Global exchanges in urban and regional planning have become even more important with the upswing in transnational historiography.
