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Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and revised. Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge in architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis of a large housing estate. The outcome of this twofold research approach is the sensitising concept of the Redundant City. It describes a specific form of collectively negotiated urban change.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. --- Change. --- City. --- Concept. --- Housing Estate. --- Munich. --- Parkstadt Bogenhausen. --- Situational Analysis. --- Society. --- Sociology. --- Space. --- Urban Studies. --- Architecture; Change; Concept; Situational Analysis; Housing Estate; Parkstadt Bogenhausen; Munich; City; Society; Urban Studies; Space; Sociology

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Harnessing large urban housing estates in former socialist countries as a resource for the future housing supply requires innovative and practicable strategies and concepts. What are the challenges to be overcome? How can the often mono-structural estates be altered, and how can spatial and cultural identities be reinforced? Which role does the community play in these former socialist neighborhoods? The contributors to this volume present perspectives from different disciplines, both in academia and practice. The exchange of international experiences creates the base for further debate and learning and provides insight into the multiplicity of challenges and approaches today.

ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. --- Architecture. --- City. --- Design. --- Eastern Europe. --- Large Housing Estate. --- Neighborhood Development. --- Society. --- Space. --- Sustainable Transformation. --- Urban Studies.

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"In the 1960s, socialist and capitalist urban planners, architects, and city officials chose the urban periphery as the site to test out new ideas in modernist architecture and planning: the outskirts of Prague and a bedroom suburb of Toronto would be the sites for experimental urban development. In the Suburbs of History overcomes the divisions between East and West to reassemble the shared histories of modern architecture and urbanism as it shaped and re-shaped the periphery. Drawing on archives, interviews, architectural journals, and site visits to the peripheries of Prague and Toronto, Steven Logan reveals the intertwined histories of capitalist and socialist urban planning. From socialist utopias to the capitalist visions of the edge city, the history of the suburbs is not simply a history of competing urban forms; rather, it is a history of alternatives that advocated collective solutions over the dominant model of single-family home ownership and car-dominated spaces."--

City planning --- Suburbs --- History --- Outskirts of cities --- Suburban areas --- Suburbia --- Cities and towns --- Metropolitan areas --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Growth --- Government policy --- Management --- 1900-1999 --- Czech Republic --- Ontario --- York --- Czechoslovakia --- home ownership. --- housing estate. --- modernism. --- modernist architecture. --- socialism. --- suburban landscape. --- suburban planning. --- suburbs. --- urbanism.

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This is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private flats, shopping mall, and suburban office park. Sam Wetherell shows how these spaces transformed Britain's politics, economy, and society, helping forge a midcentury developmental state and shaping the rise of neoliberalism after 1980.

Architecture and society --- City planning --- Sociology, Urban --- Industrial districts --- Shopping centers --- Housing --- Business parks --- History --- Adam Page. --- Alison Ravetz. --- Alistair Kefford. --- Anna Minton. --- Boom Cities. --- Building Research Station. --- Catherine Flinn. --- Charlotte Wildman. --- Dawn Foster. --- England. --- Erika Rappaport. --- Frank Mort. --- Greater London. --- Guy Ortolano. --- Helen Meller. --- James Greenhalgh. --- James Meek. --- John Boughton. --- Jordanna Bailkin. --- Judith Walkowitz. --- Judy Giles. --- Kennetta Hammond Perry. --- Kieran Connell. --- Lewis Mumford. --- Margaret Thatcher. --- Municipal Dreams. --- Otto Saumerez Smith. --- Planning for Affluence. --- Reconstructing Modernity. --- Rosemary Wakeman. --- Sarah Mass. --- Simon Gunn. --- Stockley Park. --- Team Valley. --- Thatcher's Progress. --- United Kingdom. --- Victor Gruen. --- architectural engineering. --- architecture. --- business park. --- private housing estate. --- public housing. --- social engineering. --- social infrastructure. --- state-directed development. --- urban forms. --- urban history. --- urban infrastructure. --- urban landscape. --- urban planning. --- urban space.