Cities Contested
Urban Politics, Heritage, and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s
(Sprache: Englisch)
Die 1970er-Jahre gelten in der deutschen Zeitgeschichte als Epoche eines tief greifenden sozialen Wandels, eines "Strukturbruchs " im Übergang von der Industriemoderne zur postfordistischen Gesellschaft. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes widmen sich diesem...
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Die 1970er-Jahre gelten in der deutschen Zeitgeschichte als Epoche eines tief greifenden sozialen Wandels, eines "Strukturbruchs " im Übergang von der Industriemoderne zur postfordistischen Gesellschaft. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes widmen sich diesem Jahrzehnt erstmals aus einer stadthistorischen Perspektive und stellen dabei Entwicklungen in Westdeutschland und Italien einander gegenüber. In Fallstudien zu Städten vom Ruhrgebiet bis Sizilien wird untersucht, wie sich die Umbrüche dieser Zeit im Brennpunkt von städtischem Raum und städtischer Gesellschaft verdichten, als "urbane Krise" wahrgenommen und verhandelt werden und sich in Konflikten in der städtischen Politik sowie Kämpfen in und um die Stadt manifestieren.
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Die 1970er-Jahre gelten in der deutschen Zeitgeschichte als Epoche eines tief greifenden sozialen Wandels, eines "Strukturbruchs " im Übergang von der Industriemoderne zur postfordistischen Gesellschaft. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes widmen sich diesem Jahrzehnt erstmals aus einer stadthistorischen Perspektive und stellen dabei Entwicklungen in Westdeutschland und Italien einander gegenüber. In Fallstudien zu Städten vom Ruhrgebiet bis Sizilien wird untersucht, wie sich die Umbrüche dieser Zeit im Brennpunkt von städtischem Raum und städtischer Gesellschaft verdichten, als "urbane Krise" wahrgenommen und verhandelt werden und sich in Konflikten in der städtischen Politik sowie Kämpfen in und um die Stadt manifestieren.
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Introduction: Contested Cities in an Era of Crisis Martin Baumeister, Bruno Bonomo, Dieter Schott "Save Our Cities Now!" The Perception of Urban Crisis in the Early 1970s In May 1971, the Deutscher Städtetag, the Association of German Cities, held its convention in Munich. Hans-Jochen Vogel, president of the Association, mayor of the Bavarian capital and a prominent Social Democratic politician, gave the keynote lecture under the title of the convention's programmatic motto: "Save our cities now!" In his speech, Vogel drew a pitch-black picture of the situation of West German cities which, according to his diagnosis, were threatened by a deep crisis after the enormous effort and impressive successes of 25 years of postwar reconstruction. He saw obvious parallels to the United States, quoting President Nixon who had recently declared that one would need another American revolution in order to save the country's cities from the brink of a precipice. Munich's mayor listed a whole series of symptoms characterizing the difficult situation of the growing cities and urban agglomerations: among others, the decay of older residential areas and historic city centers, urban sprawl and the mushrooming of new faceless districts, traffic congestion and heavy pollution, an increasingly insufficient infrastructure in education and the public health system, growing social inequality and disintegration. Vogel diagnosed a deep urban crisis of epochal dimensions, which, for its part, was a manifestation of profound transformations in all spheres of life. He declared that the future of the cities would be decided not in the sphere of urbanism and by urban experts, but in politics. For Vogel, a pragmatic reformer and certainly not a radical intellectual, the roots of the problems were to be found in the development of capitalism, especially in exploding real estate prices and the disparity between strong private financial power and weak municipal finances. Vogel's statement as well as
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the Städtetag meeting had a considerable media impact at its time. The influential magazine Der Spiegel made it its cover story, transforming the Städtetag's strong appeal into the rather pessimistic question: "Can we still save the cities?" The weekly Die Zeit asked: "Are our cities dying?", echoing Jane Jacobs' famous critique of modernist urban planning and urban renewal in the United States of the fifties. For West German experts and politicians the apparently catastrophic situation of the great cities in the United States, plagued by social disintegration, racial conflicts and the impact of mass traffic and anonymous mass consumerism as evoked in the proliferating American debate about the "urban crisis", served as a warning of a future threatening their own cities. The West German debate of May 1971-properly speaking the culmination of a longer process of critical evaluation by German intellectuals-expressed a growing sense of unease about recent urban development and modern urban life. Summed up in the rather vague term of "urban crisis", this sense of unease gained ground in manifold political and academic discourses of the postwar era, especially during the sixties and seventies. "Urban crisis" referred to a variety of problems in rather different contexts. In the United States, it was marked by general societal struggles often perceived in categories of race and class, while in Western Europe it was influenced, apart from wider political and social contexts, by normative concepts and ideas of distinctive European traditions of city and urbanity. Marxist scholars used the term in order to denounce the strains and social costs of capitalist development which were becoming particularly evident in the urban centers of the Western hemisphere. For Henri Lefebvre, "la crise urbaine" was the "most central" of a whole series of crises affecting French society in the sixties, reflecting the country's deep transformation. Debates on the "urban crisis"-which intensifie
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ContentsIntroduction:Contested Cities in an Era of Crisis7Martin Baumeister, Bruno Bonomo, Dieter SchottThe 1970s-a Period of Structural Rupture in Germanyand Italy?31Lutz RaphaelUrban Politics and Visions of the CityChanging Cities. An Urban Questionfor the Italian Communist Party53Francesco BartoliniNights of Miracles in Rome? The "Estate Romana"in the "Years of Lead" (1976-1979)73Roberto ColozzaCorviale, Rome. An Architectural and Social Utopiaof the Seventies97Vittorio VidottoThe "Villaggio del Pilastro". Urban Planning, Social Housing and Grassroots Mobilization in a Suburb of Bologna (1960-1985)121Giovanni CristinaMunich-City of Immigration? Integration Policiesand Italian Active Participation in Munich Political and Social Lifethrough Italian Organizations in the 1970s147Grazia PronteraThe Historic City between Protection and ReinventionEscaping Modernity? Civic Protest, the Preservation Movement andthe Reinvention of the Old Town in Germany since the 1960s169Gerhard Vinken"La Festa è Finita!" The Question of "Centri Storici"in 1970s Italy193Guido ZucconiBologna and the (Re-)Discovery of Urban Values211Harald BodenschatzFrom "Vecchio Nucleo Cittadino" to "Centro Storico".On Bologna's Preservation Policies and the Social Costof Urban Renewal (1955-1975)229Jost UlshöferProtection of Cultural Heritage and Urban Development. Cataniaand Syracuse in the Seventies: A Comparative Approach249Melania NuciforaContested Spaces and Social Movements"Squatting means to destroy the capitalist plan in the urban quarters": Spontis, Autonomists and the Struggles over Public Commodities(1970-1983)277Freia Anders / Alexander Sedlmaier"Movimento del '77" Perceived. Reinvigorating Urban Protestin West Germany301Sebastian HaumannThe Struggle for Housing in Rome. Contexts, Protagonistsand Practices of a Social Urban Conflict321Luciano VillaniUrban Movement à la Ruhr? The Initiatives for the Preservationof Workers' Settlements in the 1970s347Christian WickeNotes on Authors372Index of
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Names 375Index of Places 379
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Autoren-Porträt von Cities Contested
Martin Baumeister ist Leiter des Deutschen Historischen Instituts in Rom. Bruno Bonomo, Ph.D., ist Juniorprofessor für Zeitgeschichte an der Universität Rom "La Sapienza". Dieter Schott ist Professor für Neuere Geschichte an der TU Darmstadt.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Cities Contested
- 2017, 383 Seiten, 35 Abbildungen, Maße: 14,4 x 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Martin Baumeister, Bruno Bonomo, Dieter Schott
- Verlag: CAMPUS VERLAG
- ISBN-10: 3593506971
- ISBN-13: 9783593506975
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.05.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
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"Der Blick auf verschiedene Akteursgruppen (sowie Medien) in der Stadt macht die Qualität der quellenreichen, durchweg gehaltvollen Beiträge aus. Bemerkenswert ist ihre inhaltliche Kohärenz [...]. Damit gelingt ein breites Panorama auf Stadtentwicklung, 'Heritage Politics', soziale Konflikte, Graswurzelbewegungen und transnationale Beobachtungsprozesse [...]." Claudia Christiane Gatzka, H-Soz-Kult, 29.09.2017
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