European Planning History in the 20th Century A Continent of Urban Planning

• Main Author: Welch Guerra, Max
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Routledge 2023; Taylor and Francis; No Funder Information Available; Taylor & Francis
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Architecture; Built Environment; Cities and towns > Growth; City and town planning: architectural aspects; City Planning & Urban Development; City planning > Europe > History > 20th century; Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning; European Politics; Geography; Historical Geography; Landscape; Landscape architecture and design; Nonfiction; Planning History; Political Science; Politics; Politics & International Relations; Public Policy; Regional and area planning; Social groups, communities and identities; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; The Arts; Urban & Land Use Planning; Urban and municipal planning; Urban and municipal planning and policy; Urban communities; Urban policy > Europe > History > 20th century; Urban Studies; Planning History; CORINE Land Cover; Grand Paris; Collective Public Transport; European Planning; Vice Versa; Port Authority; urban planning; spatial planning; 20th century; Urban Hygiene; State Socialist Countries; National Library; Public Administration; Transportation Networks; Instituto De Reformas Sociales; European Urban Planning; Pedro Bidagor; history; Planning Historiography; Transnational Urbanism; Slovak People's Party; Informal Urbanization; CIAM Summer School; General Development Plan; Urban Transport Planning; National Building; Town Planning Manuals; General Transport Plan; Territorial Planning System
• ISBN: 9781032222264; 1032222271; 1032222263; 9781032222271; 9781000646825; 1000646823; 1000646793; 9781000646795
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003271666

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.