Who Plans the Planning?: Architecture, Politics, and Mankind

Lucius Burckhardt

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Who Plans the Planning?

Architecture, Politics, and Mankind

Lucius Burckhardt
Edited by: Jesko Fezer and Martin Schmitz

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2020

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Critical theory of planning

From the 1950s, Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003) focused on planning, design, and construction in a democracy. His astute observations and critical analysis have had a fundamental effect on the design of our environment, on teaching in the architectural/planning professions, and on our understanding of what "city" means.

His research, which – between mighty commercial interests and conflicting political aspirations focuses on the benefit for the entire population – is indispensable when and wherever buildings are planned, designed, built, and inhabited. With a new selection of texts, this book ploughs a furrow through Lucius Burckhardt’s theory of planning.

Critical theory of planning as orientation
A collection of important source texts, for the first time available in English
Design as a service for citizens

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Lucius Burckhardt (1925–2003), founder of the science of strollology, taught architectural theory in Kassel

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"Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) setzte sich seit den 1950er-Jahren mit dem Planen und Bauen in der Demokratie auseinander. Seine scharfen Beobachtungen und kritischen Analysen haben die Gestaltung unserer Umwelt, die Lehre in den planenden Berufen und das Verständnis von Stadt grundlegend beeinflusst. Seine Forschungen, die zwischen mächtigen ökonomischen lnteressen und widerstreitenden politischen Ansprüchen das Wohl einer Gesamtbevölkerung in den Blick nehmen, sind unentbehrlich, wann und wo immer geplant, gestaltet, gebaut und gewohnt wird. Das Buch versammelt eine neue Auswahl seiner Texte." (In Literaturdatenbank ORLIS)

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Architecture and Design Architecture Urbanism

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

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eBook published on:

November 18, 2019

eBook ISBN:

9783035620306

Paperback published on:

November 18, 2019

Paperback ISBN:

9783035619010

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

336

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035620306

eBook ISBN: 9783035620306

Paperback ISBN: 9783035619010

Keywords for this book

Social Design; Urban Design; Participation

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Urban Planners, Architects, Landscape and Environmental Designers, Students, Communities, Developer

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