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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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    Frontmatter

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    Content

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    From Critical Urban Studies to the Science of Walking

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    Martin Schmitz
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    Politics—Environment—Mankind

    12
    Jesko Fezer
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  • POLITICS
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    Urban Planning and Democracy (1957)

    19
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    Construction: A Process with No Obligations to Historic Preservation (1967)

    25
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    Political Decisions in Construction Planning (1970)

    42
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    The Drawbacks of Leitbilder [Models] for Decision-Making (1971)

    54
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    Who Plans the Planning? (1974)

    65
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    Communication and the Built Environment (1978)

    80
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    Between Patchwork and the Master Plan (1982) The Future Which Failed To Arrive (1982)

    90
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    The Future Which Failed To Arrive (1982)

    97
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    Architecture: An Art or A Science? (1983)

    104
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    The End of Polytechnic Solvability (1989)

    110
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  • ENVIRONMENT
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    The Urban Crisis (1961)

    121
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    The Revolution Did Not Happen (1964)

    129
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    On the Value and Meaning of Urban Utopias (1968)

    135
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    Signs of the Times (1973)

    148
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    Aesthetic Issues in Architecture (1978)

    153
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    Of Small Steps and Great Effects (1978)

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    Design Is Invisible (1980)

    171
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    What Is Livability? On Quantifiable and Invisible Needs (1981)

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    The So-Called Urban Planning of the 1960s (1989)

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    Valuable Rubbish, the Limits of Care, and Destruction through Care (1991)

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    The City in the Year 2028 (1998)

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  • MANKIND
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    Does Modern Architecture Make Us Unfree? (1961)

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    On Housing Needs (1970)

    236
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    What Does the Citizen Expect of Urban Design? (1972)

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    Family and Home: Two Adaptable Systems (1975)

    254
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    Public Taste, or: On the Shift in Aesthetic Evaluation (1977)

    265
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    An Imaginary Visit (1977)

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    Learning from Squatters (1977)

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    DIY and the Construction Industry (1980)

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    No-Man’s-Land (1980)

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    The Architect’s Concept of Mankind (1980)

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    We Must Reclaim Public Space (1982)

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    Landscape and Motorcars (1988)

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    Bibliography

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    Biography

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    Index

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Publishing information
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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
Audience(s) for this book
Urban Planners, Architects, Landscape and Environmental Designers, Students, Communities, Developer
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