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In this volume, contributions from Europe and Latin America provide insight into the functions of planning under very different political and societal constellations over the last hundred years: dictatorships, parliamentary democracies and illiberalism; capitalism and state socialism; state interventionism and neoliberalism, and more.
List of contents
Part 1 Right¿Wing Dictatorships and Their Heritage 1. A European Perspective on National¿Socialist Urbanism 2. Reconstruction as a Dictatorial Power Strategy: The Multiple Functions of an Urban Programme in the Early Years of the Franco Regime (1938-1959) 3. The Dictatorial Modernization of Portugal 4.
Valle De Los Caídos/Valle De Cuelgamuros: Construction, Use and "Dispute Value" of a Gigantic Legacy of the Franco Dictatorship, 1939-2023 5. Nuremberg: Nazi Party Rally Grounds in a Changing European Culture of Remembrance 6. Italy's Dealing with Its Fascist Legacy: A History of Development 7. Urban Heritage and Political Memory Under Dictatorship and Democracy in Chile
Part 2 State Socialisms, Parliamentary Democracy, Illiberalism 8. Planning, Politics and Panel Housing: Czechoslovak Housing Estates 9. From Comprehensive Planning to Small Interventions: Urban Renewal and Rationalisation in the German Democratic Republic 10. A Twofold Criticism of Spatial Planning: Unique Academic Experiences in the German Democratic Republic 11. Planning the "Victory of Socialism" and Its Afterlives: The Civic Center of Bucharest Before and After 1989 12. Sights Set High: Steering the Tertiarisation in Frankfurt Am Main (1945-1986) 13. Between Two Domes: Shifting Political Power Relations in Post¿2010 Budapest
About the author
Victoria Grau studied urban studies at the Bauhaus University, Weimar and at University College Dublin. Since 2022, she has worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Spatial Planning and Spatial Research at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Max Welch Guerra is Senior Professor of Spatial Planning and Spatial Research and Head of the BSc and MSc Urbanistik at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Summary
In this volume, contributions from Europe and Latin America provide insight into the functions of planning under very different political and societal constellations over the last hundred years: dictatorships, parliamentary democracies and illiberalism; capitalism and state socialism; state interventionism and neoliberalism, and more.
