Stadt und Planung – A reader with texts from 100 years of urban development

The German-language reader comprises over 40 texts on urban development from the past 100 years. For this book on the basic principles of urban planning and development, members of the Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung (DASL – German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning) selected and commented on texts to which they attribute particular importance for their technical understanding or their professional work. The occasion for the compilation of the texts is DASL’s 100th anniversary.

The selection is not intended as a reading canon, instead the format opens up a colourful kaleidoscope of different texts, including extracts from classic texts, rediscovered academic essays, powerful talks and influential manifestos, but newspaper articles, travel reports and poems, too. The spectrum of authors ranges from Cornelius Gurlitt (DASL’s first president) through Rudolf Hillebrecht to Thomas Sieverts, from Walter Benjamin through Jane Jacobs to Erika Spiegel. The focuses are as diverse as the disciplines represented in the academy: not only urban and regional planning, but also architecture, landscape architecture, traffic planning, construction and planning regulations, urban sociology and urban economics. In addition to these come texts from other academic disciplines such as philosophy and ecology, which with their perspectives from outside have always enriched the debates on practice and theory in urban development. Just as varied as the texts are the motives and reasons for the selection. In their entirety, they reflect the Academy’s stance on issues over time and technical conventions, indirectly depicting the history of the DASL.

In 2022, the DASL will mark one hundred years since its establishment and is taking this opportunity to reappraise its eventful history. The book presented here is a part of this reappraisal. Work is currently underway on a two-volume work on the history and theory of urban development in Germany: Volume 1 entitled Ordnung und Gestalt (Order and Form 1922 – 1975) has already been published, volume 2 on Positionen und Perspektiven (Positions and Perspectives 1975 to the present day) will round off the three DASL publications marking the anniversary year 2022.

x

Related articles:

BAU forums set out the future of architecture and urban planning

So what does the future of building look like? How are architects and planners tackling these problems? What innovative products, systems and manufacturing methods are available? Who today has a...

more
Bau Congress China

German-Chinese Dialog Dealing with All Aspects of Sustainability as well as Integral Planning and Performance

The Bau Congress China will celebrate its premier in Beijing on July 8 and 9, 2014. Preparations are underway at full swing. The congress is divided into two topics: The first congress day will...

more
Issue 12/2012 Forums of Bau 2013: Bau plus!

Experts discuss questions related to architecture and urban planning of the future

Experts from all over the world who are concerned with current questions of architecture and city development, will be addressing these subjects and answering questions on them at Bau 2013 – right in...

more

09.01.2010 News: Acimac launches international e-learning academy

The International Industry E-learning Academy IIEA set up by Acimac (Italian Ceramic Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers’ Association) was presented this morning at the Association’s...

more
Issue 2/2019

Thank you, Willi Bender

One of our best authors, most severe and yet most loyal critics, most faithful and most attentive readers, Willi Bender, is gone. The first lesson I ever learned on my new job as Zi editor in 2001, is...

more