The Revolution Did Not Happen (1964)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Content 5
3. From Critical Urban Studies to the Science of Walking 7
4. Politics—Environment—Mankind 12
5. POLITICS
6. Urban Planning and Democracy (1957) 19
7. Construction: A Process with No Obligations to Historic Preservation (1967) 25
8. Political Decisions in Construction Planning (1970) 42
9. The Drawbacks of Leitbilder [Models] for Decision-Making (1971) 54
10. Who Plans the Planning? (1974) 65
11. Communication and the Built Environment (1978) 80
12. Between Patchwork and the Master Plan (1982) The Future Which Failed To Arrive (1982) 90
13. The Future Which Failed To Arrive (1982) 97
14. Architecture: An Art or A Science? (1983) 104
15. The End of Polytechnic Solvability (1989) 110
16. ENVIRONMENT
17. The Urban Crisis (1961) 121
18. The Revolution Did Not Happen (1964) 129
19. On the Value and Meaning of Urban Utopias (1968) 135
20. Signs of the Times (1973) 148
21. Aesthetic Issues in Architecture (1978) 153
22. Of Small Steps and Great Effects (1978) 161
23. Design Is Invisible (1980) 171
24. What Is Livability? On Quantifiable and Invisible Needs (1981) 182
25. The So-Called Urban Planning of the 1960s (1989) 191
26. Valuable Rubbish, the Limits of Care, and Destruction through Care (1991) 201
27. The City in the Year 2028 (1998) 213
28. MANKIND
29. Does Modern Architecture Make Us Unfree? (1961) 221
30. On Housing Needs (1970) 236
31. What Does the Citizen Expect of Urban Design? (1972) 244
32. Family and Home: Two Adaptable Systems (1975) 254
33. Public Taste, or: On the Shift in Aesthetic Evaluation (1977) 265
34. An Imaginary Visit (1977) 274
35. Learning from Squatters (1977) 276
36. DIY and the Construction Industry (1980) 278
37. No-Man’s-Land (1980) 291
38. The Architect’s Concept of Mankind (1980) 293
39. We Must Reclaim Public Space (1982) 305
40. Landscape and Motorcars (1988) 314
41. Bibliography 325
42. Biography 331
43. Index 333