European Planning History in the 20th Century: A Continent of Urban Planning

The history of Europe in the 20th century is closely tied to the history of urban planning. Social and economic progress but also the brute treatment of people and nature throughout Europe were possible due to the use of urban planning and the other levels of spatial planning. Thereby, planning has constituted itself in Europe as an international subject. Since its emergence, through intense exchange but also competition, despite country differences, planning has developed as a European field of practice and scientific discipline. Planning is here much more than the addition of individual histories; however, historiography has treated this history very selective regarding geography and content.

This book searches for an understanding of the historiography of planning in a European dimension. Scholars from Eastern and Western, Southern and Northern Europe address the issues of the public led production of city and the social functions of urban planning in capitalist and state-socialist countries. The examined examples include Poland and USSR, Czech Republic and Slovakia, UK, Netherlands, Germany, France, Portugal and Spain, Italy, and Sweden. The book will be of interest to students and scholars for Urbanism, Urban/Town Planning, Spatial Planning, Spatial Politics, Urban Development, Urban Policies, Planning History and European History of the 20th Century.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Max Welch Guerra is Professor of Spatial Planning and Spatial Research and Head of the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Urbanistik at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Abdellah Abarkan is professor and heads the chair of spatial planning at the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) in Karlskrona, Sweden.

María A. Castrillo Romón is full professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the Department of Urban Planning and Representation of Architecture and researcher of the University Institute of Urban Planning (Instituto Universitario de Urbanística, IUU), both at the University of Valladolid (Spain).

Martin Pekár, PhD is a professor of Slovak history, at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts, Safárik University in Kosice.