The Streets Echoed with Chants
The Urban Experience of Post-War West Berlin
Summary
Excerpt
Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Timeline of Global Events
- Introduction
- Section 1 The Present
- Chapter 1 Urban Planning and the Formulation of Society
- Chapter 2 Colour in the City
- Chapter 3 Functionalism under Attack
- Section 2 The Past
- Chapter 4 Entangled Politics in Post-War Germany
- Chapter 5 The Post-War Psyche and Politics Aestheticized
- Chapter 6 Reclaim the City!
- Section 3 The Future
- Chapter 7 A Contested City Vision
- Chapter 8 Sociology Provides a Solution
- Chapter 9 From Theory to Praxis
- Chapter 10 Post-mortem. The Aftermath: Reform or Revolution?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Series index
Figures
Figure 1.Der Spiegel, ‘Mis-Building the Future: Housing in Germany’, 6 (3 February 1969).
Figure 3.Signatories of Aktion 507, Diagnose, 1968. (Reproduced courtesy of Hinrich Baller).
Figure 4.Aktion 507, Diagnose, 1968. (Reproduced courtesy of Hinrich Baller).
Figure 7.Location of Post-War Housing Settlements. (Map data © Google 2019).
Figure 10.Bruno Taut, Hufeisensiedlung, Berlin, 1925–33. (Author, 2016).
Figure 11.Walter Gropius, Gropius-Bau, Gropiusstadt, 1952–75. (Author, 2016).
←xi | xii→Figure 16.Chen Kuen Lee’s Building, Märkisches Viertel. (Author, 2015).
Figure 18.Aktion 507, Diagnose (1968), 36. (Reproduced courtesy of Hinrich Baller).
←xii | xiii→Figure 27.Diagnose Exhibition Invitation. (Reproduced courtesy of Hinrich Baller).
Figure 28.Aktion 507, Diagnose (1968), 41. (Reproduced courtesy of Hinrich Baller).
←xiii | xiv→Figure 32.Herbert Vesely (dir.), Die Stadt (München: filmform oHG, 1959) 13:36 min.
←xiv | xv→Figure 45.Jürgen Holtfreter, Diagnose Poster, 1968. (Reproduced courtesy of Jürgen Holtfreter).
Figure 49.Leaflet for a Demonstration against the Springer Press, 1968. (FU Archiv Berlin).
←xv | xvi→Figure 56.Herbert Vesely (dir.), Die Stadt (München: filmform oHG, 1959), 4:11 min.
Figure 63.Kritische Universität Pamphlet, 1967. (Reproduced courtesy of Michael Wegener).
Figure 64.Leaflet: Wir Sind die Linken!!! (TU Archiv Berlin).
←xvi | xvii→Figure 66.‘Not A Pfennig More Rent!’, MV Zeitung (October 1971).
Figure 69.Programme for the Diagnose Exhibition Opening. (Reproduced courtesy of Hinrich Baller).
Details
- Pages
- XXIV, 302
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781789977974
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781789977981
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9781789977998
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781789975819
- DOI
- 10.3726/b16755
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2021 (November)
- Keywords
- Architectural activism in 1968 Post-War West Berlin Urban Experience
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2022. XXIV, 302 pp., 24 fig. col., 54 fig. b/w.