Title & Author:

Cities contested : urban politics, heritage, and social movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s / Martin Baumeister, Bruno Bonomo, Dieter Schott (eds.).

Publication:

Frankfurt : Campus Verlag, [2017]
© 2017

Description:

382 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction : Contested cities in an era of crisis / Martin Baumeister, Bruno Bonomo, Dieter Schott -- The 1970s : a period of structural rupture in Germany and Italy? / Lutz Raphael -- Urban politics and visions of the city. Changing cities : an urban question for the Italian Communist party / Francesco Bartolini ; Nights of miracles in Rome? The 'Estate Romana" in the "Years of Lead" (1976-1979) / Roberto Colozza ; Corviale, Rome : an architectural and social utopia of the seventies / Vittorio Vidotto ; The "Villaggio del Pilastro: : urban planning, social housing and grassroots mobilization in a suburb of Bologna (1960-1985) / Giovanni Cristina ; Munich, city of immigration? Integration policies and Italian active participation in Munich political and social life through Italian organizations in the 1970s / Grazia Prontera -- The historic city between protection and reinvention. Escaping modernity? Civic protest, the preservation movement and the reinvention of the Old Town in Germany since the 1960s / Gerhard Vinken ; "La festa è finita!" The question of "Centri storici" in 1970s Italy / Guido Zucconi ; Bologna and the (re-)discovery of urban values / Harald Bodenschatz ; From "Vecchio nucleo cittadino" to "Centro storico" : on Bologna's preservation policies and the social cost of urban renewal (1955-1975) / Jost Ulshöfer ; Protection of cultural heritage and urban development : Catania and Syracuse in the seventies : a comparative approach / Melania Nucifora -- Contested spaces and social movements. "Squatting means to destroy the capitalist plan in the urban quarters" : Spontis, autonomists and the struggles over public commodities (1970-1983) / Freia Andres. Alexander Sedlmaier ; "Movimento del '77" perceived : reinvigorating urban protest in West Germany / Sebastian Haumann ; The struggle for housing in Rome : contexts, protagonists and practices of a social urban conflict / Luciano Villani ; Urban movement à la Ruhr? The initiatives for the preservation of worker's settlements in the 1970s / Christian Wicke.

Summary:

Historians discuss the 1970s as an era of deep transformations and even structural rupture in Western societies. For the first time, Cities Contested engages in this debate from the perspective of comparative urban history, examining the struggles in and about urban space at a time when ideas about the "city" and concepts of urban planning were being reconsidered. This book discusses the structural rupture of the time by comparing case studies of Italian and Western German cities, analyzing central issues of urban politics, urban renewal and heritage, and urban protest and social movements. An original contribution to current debates on the transition from industrial modernity to post-Fordist societies as well as to urban history and the history of social movements, Cities Contested draws on the parallel histories of Italy and Germany to propose new questions and new avenues for investigation.-- Provided by Publisher.

ISBN:

3593506971 (paperback)
9783593506975 (paperback)

Subject:

Cities and towns Italy Sociological aspects.
Cities and towns Germany Sociological aspects.
Social movements Italy History 20th century.
Social movements Germany History 20th century.
Sociologie urbaine Italie.
Sociologie urbaine Allemagne.
Mouvements sociaux Italie Histoire 20e siècle.
Mouvements sociaux Allemagne Histoire 20e siècle.
Cities and towns Sociological aspects.
Social movements.
Architecture and Planning.
Germany.
Italy.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Baumeister, Martin, editor.
Bonomo, Bruno, editor.
Schott, Dieter, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 296884
Call No.: BIB 243202
Status: Available