Histories of Urban Planning and Political Power

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.

Urban planning has always been a preeminent instrument of political power. 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; societies in times of peace and societies marked by colonial, civil, world, or cold wars.

The dictatorships of the 1920s and 1930s made extensive use of the potential of planning for economic growth, for brutal repression, but also for the integration of certain population groups and as an effective means of propaganda. The legacy of these dictatorships still characterizes many European cities today and confronts planning with complex tasks. Dictatorial state socialism planned to establish a new social order with a particular technocratic rationality, which did not, however, cancel completely the tendential autonomy of the professional planning sphere. Parliamentary democracies and illiberal regimes have developed specific new practices of using planning to rebuild cities in the interests of neoliberal economic growth and populistic legitimization of power.

Histories of Urban Planning and Political Power takes the next steps in significantly expanding our understanding of planning and politics. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of urbanism, urban/town planning, spatial planning, spatial politics, urban development, urban policies, and planning history and European history of the 20th century.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

Part 1 RightWing Dictatorships and Their Heritage 1. A European Perspective on NationalSocialist Urbanism 2. Reconstruction as a Dictatorial Power Strategy: The Multiple Functions of an Urban Programme in the Early Years of the Franco Regime (19381959) 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, 19392023 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 (19451986) 13. Between Two Domes: Shifting Political Power Relations in Post2010 Budapest