 Urban design for Mussolini, Stalin, Salazar, Hitler and Franco (1922-1945)Harald Bodenschatz Planning Perspectives, 2014, vol. 29, issue 3, 381-392 Abstract: The urban design practices of Europe's major dictatorships, from the end of the First World War to the end of the Second World War, are not only interesting from a historical perspective. They continue to have long-term effects and to be the subject of a disputed culture of reception. My hypothesis is that we must broaden our research concept in order to develop a satisfactory approach to the field of 'dictatorships and urban design'. We must overcome the singular national perspective: urban design has always emerged within the context of an international exchange of concepts and ideas, even in times of dictatorship. We must clear our perception of urban design: it is more than just form. The 'dictatorial' in urban design demonstrates itself less through products and more through production conditions and processes, such as the establishment of special agencies, provision and supply of special financial means, manner of project implementation and the use of forced labour. For this reason, I propose a distinction between the products and production conditions of urban design under European dictatorships. Date: 2014 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:rppexx:v:29:y:2014:i:3:p:381-392 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2014.901185 Access Statistics for this article Planning Perspectives is currently edited by Michael Hebbert More articles in Planning Perspectives from Taylor & Francis Journals |
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