ABSTRACT
Windows Upon Planning History delves into a wide range of perspectives on urbanism from Europe, Australia and the USA to investigate the effects of changing perceptions and different ways of seeing cities and urban regions. Fischer, Altrock and a team of 13 distinguished authors examine how and why the ideologies and the processes of city making changed in modern and post-modern times.
Illustrated with over 45 images, the themes addressed in the book range from the changing outlook on Berlin’s historic apartment districts and their demolition, salvation and gentrification to how planning was deployed to support dictatorship; from the shattering of myths like democracies totally departing from preceding dictatorships to the model of the post-war modern city and its fate towards the end of the twentieth century.
The volume combines case studies of cities on three continents with reflections on the historiography and the state of planning history.
With a foreword by Stephen V. Ward, this book will appeal to a wide readership interested in the histories of planning, architecture and cities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|11 pages
Introduction
part 2|64 pages
Planning history and the windows metaphor – legacies and current challenges
chapter 4|12 pages
How many histories
part 3|106 pages
Eye-openers and long-range perspectives – case studies
chapter 9|17 pages
Transportation planning in Boston
part 4|79 pages
Presentations and paradigms
chapter 13|17 pages
Urbanism and dictatorship – overcoming tunnel vision
chapter 14|11 pages
Heritage, community activism and urban development
part 5|6 pages
Conclusions