Urbanism and Dictatorship: Perspectives of the Field of Urban Studies

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Introduction 7
4. Urbanism and Dictatorship: Expanding Spaces for Thought! 15
5. Urbanism and Dictatorship: Perspectives of the Field of Urban Studies 27
6. Urbanism and Dictatorship: Perspectives of Art History 36
7. Italy
8. Urbanism in Fascist Italy: All Well and Good? 43
9. The Role of Newsreels in the Modernization of Cities: More than just Propaganda 75
10. Portugal
11. Urbanism under Salazar: Program, Practice, and Reception 89
12. Spain
13. On Urbanism in the Early Years of Francoism 117
14. Preservation of Franco’s Social Housing Estates in Madrid 135
15. Germany
16. Urbanism and Housing Policy in Nazi Germany: A Commentary 148
17. The Technical Fairground in Leipzig in the Period of National Socialism 166
18. Soviet Union
19. Controversial Urbanism During the First Years of the Stalin Dictatorship 183
20. Ernst May’s Standardized Cities for Western Siberia 199
21. Conclusions
22. Urbanism, Dictatorship and Historiography: A Contextualization 217
23. Related Activities
24. The European Cultural Route ATRIUM: A “Dissonant Heritage” 229
25. UEDXX: International Network “Urbanism of European Dictatorships during the XXth Century” 235
26. Authors 240
27. Picture Credits 246