The expertise of participation: mass housing and urban planning in post‐war France

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenny Cupers
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Mass Housing ◽  
Post War

scholarly journals The (Post-) Soviet Built Environment: Soviet–Western Relat ions in the In dustrialised Mass Housing and its Reflections in Soviet Lithuania

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Drėmaitė
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Housing Production ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Mass Housing ◽  
Nikita Khrushchev ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Housing Programme

This paper discusses the social, political and especially the technological aspect of the post-war Soviet industrialisation of housing, focusing on the relation to Western planning and technology. The chronological scope of the paper covers the thaw in Soviet architecture and construction that began in 1954 after the well-known meeting of Soviet architects and builders initiated by Nikita Khrushchev. This study presents Soviet architects’ study trips to the West, which became crucial in changing the entire urban planning and mass housing production system in the USSR. The text examines how pan-Union mass housing industrialisation policy and practice were carried out in the 1960s in the Western periphery of the USSR, namely Soviet Lithuania, which became the leader in mass housing urban design because of the Western-oriented ambitions of Baltic architects. Thus, in the paper the modern Soviet mass housing programme is researched from the perspective of (mutations in) modernist urban planning.

scholarly journals Unrealised monumental sculpture as an architectural and artistic component of urban planning concepts on the example of the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 470-485
Author(s):  
Sergei B. Tkachenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
General Plan ◽  
Virtual Reconstruction ◽  
Monumental Sculpture ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Architectural Structures ◽  
Post War ◽  
Planning Concepts ◽  
Artistic Image

Built according to the designs of outstanding architects, bridges constructed in Moscow during the 1930s can be classified as philosophically-meaningful aesthetic structures having the ability to affect both contemporaries and their descendants. The object of the study consisted of the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge, occupying a special urban development position among Moscow's architectural structures due to its location at the crossroads of the central historical and ideological core of the capi-tal. According to the General Plan of 1935, the Moskvoretsky bridge was intended as the most impor-tant of the four priority bridges. The main ideological message assigned to it was to lead to Red Square forming the ideological hub of world communism the cradle of the socialist world with the funerary mau-soleum of the ever-living leader at its centre. The study examines the design stages of the Moskvoretsky bridge during the pre-war period, as well as the creative confrontation in the post-war period between architect A.V. Shchusev and sculptor V.I. Mukhina that characterised the artistic image of the Moskvoretsky bridge. The study is aimed at the examination of incentive grounds for the emer-gence of a plastic solution and the reasons for the incompleteness of an outstanding work by A.V. Schusev. General scientific methods of research (analysis, synthesis), as well as a number of par-ticular scientific methods, such as system-structural, formal-logical, graphical virtual reconstruction, complex research and others, were used in the work. Additionally, an inclusion in scientific research of methodological approaches for studying the consequences of non-implementation of urban planning concepts and projects was performed. The results of the research are presented by the proprietary de-velopment of approaches to adequate methods of determining the potential impact of unimplemented major urban planning projects on the formation of the capital of Russia on the example of the Moskvoretsky bridge.

Urban planning in the post-zoning era: From hierarchy to self-organisation in the reform of the Finnish Land Use and Building Act

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-335
Author(s):  
Annuska Rantanen ◽  
Juho Rajaniemi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Planning System ◽  
Post War ◽  
Administrative Structures ◽  
Intellectual Challenge

Encountering cities as complex systems has been pictured as both an intellectual challenge and an urge to reconceptualise planning practices accordingly. Statutory planning in Finland, like in many other European countries, is built on the principles of hierarchical three-level zoning and area reservation codes. The zoning system reflects two historical tasks: the industrialising society’s need to separate uses and the post-war desire for hierarchical administrative structures. Both these demands are rapidly losing their importance. The article focuses on current urban planning practices and planning rules, discussing their limitations to cope with urban complexity and self-organised dynamics, and aiming to develop new rules that could potentially turn complexity into an asset. Evolving digital technologies provide completely new opportunities for developing urban planning into a more transparent and interactive tool. In this framework, we set out to study the development potentials of planning rules in Finland, where the drafting of a new Land Use and Building Act is currently underway calling for a reassessment of the operative role of the planning system.

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt and transnational discourse on modern urban planning and design, 1941–1951

Urban History ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (02) ◽  
pp. 262-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
ELLEN SHOSHKES
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
Transnational Discourse ◽  
Post War ◽  
Transnational Actor ◽  
European Modernism ◽  
Modern Movement

ABSTRACTThis paper illuminates the significant contributions that Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, a British town planner, editor and educator, made to transnational discourse on modern urban planning and design from 1941 to 1951. This is when she formulated her synthesis of utopian planning ideals, grounded in the bio-regionalism of the Scottish visionary Patrick Geddes and informed by European modernism. Her hybrid grew into the Geddessian branch of the planning arm of the post-war modern movement. In addition to uncovering Tyrwhitt's hidden voice, the article also uses the biography of a transnational actor as a vehicle to analyse the emergence of the concept that urbanism encompasses both the global and the local.

Urban planning in post war Poland with reference to Cracow

Cities ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Ryder
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Post War

scholarly journals Image of the city and modern architecture in the Polish feature films of the 1960s’

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (31) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Adam Nadolny
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
Film Image ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

This article focuses on the inter-dependencies between the film image and architecture. The author has attempted to define what sort of historical background preconditions the film image to gain the status of a source for research on the history of Polish urban planning and post-war architecture, with particular emphasis placed on the 1960s.

Territories of Faith

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Pastoral Theology ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Broad View ◽  
Church Building ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Post War

In the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of churches were built across Europe in an attempt to keep up with the continent's rapid urbanisation. This book addresses the immense effort related to the planning, financing, and construction of this new religious infrastructure. Going beyond aspects of style and liturgy, and transcending a focus on particular architects or regions, this volume considers church building at the crossroads of pastoral theology, religious sociology, and urban planning. Presenting the rich palette of strategies and methods deployed by congregations, dioceses, government bodies, and private patrons in their attempt to secure a religious presence in the rapidly modernising world, Territories of Faith offers a broad view of the practice of religion and its material expression in the fast-evolving (sub)urban landscapes of post-war Europe.

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