ABSTRACT
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 constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense exchange but also competition, despite country differences, planning has developed as a European field of practice and scientific discipline. Planning is here much more than the addition of individual histories; however, historiography has treated this history very selective regarding geography and content.
This book searches for an understanding of the historiography of planning in a European dimension. Scholars from Eastern and Western, Southern and Northern Europe address the issues of the public led production of city and the social functions of urban planning in capitalist and state-socialist countries. The examined examples include Poland and USSR, Czech Republic and Slovakia, UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal and Spain, Italy, and Sweden. The book will be of interest to students and scholars for Urbanism, Urban/Town Planning, Spatial Planning, Spatial Politics, Urban Development, Urban Policies, Planning History and European History of the 20th Century.
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|94 pages
The Emergence of Contemporary Urban Planning
chapter 1.1|16 pages
Historiography Avant la Lettre?
chapter 1.2|12 pages
Urban Hygiene and Slum Clearance as Catalysts
chapter 1.3|12 pages
The Reverse of Urban Planning
chapter 1.4|11 pages
The Beginning of the Urbanism Teaching in the Schools of Architecture of Madrid and Barcelona
chapter 1.5|10 pages
Rethinking Urban Extension and International Influences
chapter 1.6|8 pages
Influences of European Urban Planning in Post-War Spain
chapter 1.7|11 pages
AméNagement, Embellissement et Extension des Villes
chapter 1.8|12 pages
Bending Interests and Blending Media in the Inter-War Modernism of Central Europe
part 2|94 pages
Functions and Practices of Urban Planning under Changing Social Orders
chapter 2.3|12 pages
French Tools for Urban Heritage Protection in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
chapter 2.6|12 pages
Transportation and Urban Planning Under State Socialism
chapter 2.7|11 pages
Contemporary European City-Making Process
chapter 2.8|11 pages
Elective Affinities
part 3|75 pages
Interpretation of the twentieth century planning history