Windows Upon Planning History

ISBN-13: 9781472469564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 296 str.

Karl Friedhelm Fischer; Uwe Altrock

Opis

In the preface to The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James suggested that ' t]he house of fiction has ... not one window, but a million... At each of them stands a figure with a pair of eyes ... He and his neighbours are watching the same show, but one seeing more where the other sees less, one seeing black where the other sees white, one seeing big where the other sees small, one seeing coarse where the other sees fine. And so on...' Opening new windows by taking a fresh look at the complex realities in which architecture, planning and urban politics operate, has had dramatic consequences for the way in which cities and city regions have developed. Examples range from medical breakthroughs and their significance on urban infrastructure through the concept of slum clearance and highway planning to the notion of sustainable urbanism. They can be as diverse as the changing outlooks on densities, on political constellations and the production of the city, or the invention of the governance paradigm. Bringing together 16 of the leading planning historians from the UK, the USA, Australia, Italy and Germany, this book is concerned with such 'turns', eureka moments and paradigm changes in planning history in modern and post-modern times. A set of central, connecting questions behind the exploration asks: What is the nature of those turns and paradigm changes in planning and society with which we are dealing? Why do we have the recurring experience of suddenly seeing the world in a new light, from a new perspective, out of a new window? And what can we say about the view we had before? Looking back at his life's work, Hannover's eminent planner of the post-war period, Rudolf Hillebrecht, was asking in 1965: 'From Ebenezer Howard to Jane Jacobs - was everything wrong?' From the perspective of planning theory, this volume asks: Are the new paradigms and 'ways of seeing' expressions of radically different phases, possibly in the sense of Copernic

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Part 1: Introduction  1. Windows Upon Planning History: General Introduction  Part 2: Planning history and the windows metaphor: legacies and current challenges  Editorial Comments  2. Windows Through a Window: A Philosophical View  3. The Janus Principle  4. How Many Histories: Notes on the Tradition of Urban History and the Reasons that Force Us to Change  5. Changing Windows in European Planning History in the Twentieth Century  6. Examining Long-range Trajectories in Planning History: Windows of Research in Germany  Part 3: Eye-Openers and Long-Range Perspectives: Case Studies  Editorial Comments  7. Coventry: a Model of Modernist Reconstruction  8. Kassel: Ruptures and Recoveries  9. Transportation Planning in Boston: A Paradigm of Progress, Opposition, and Reversals  10. Berlin: Identities of the Urban Region: ‘Copernican Turnarounds’?  11. Behind the Curtains: The ‘Zero Hour’ Myth After the Fall of the Wall  Part 4: Presentations and Paradigms  Editorial Comments  12. The Window of Planning Exhibitions in an International Perspective  13. Harald Bodenschatz: Urbanism and Dictatorship: Overcoming Tunnel Vision Three Exhibitions in Salazar's Lisbon: 1940, 1941 and 1952  14. Heritage, Community Activism and Urban Development: a Window on the Personification of Planning History  15. Signs and Signification in Planning Processes (1975-1995)  16. The Regeneration of Darling Harbour, Sydney, Through Three Planning Windows  Part 5: Conclusions  17. Perspectives of Planning History: Where Do We Stand Today? And Where Do We Want to Go?