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What makes up a capital city? In this first comprehensive look at the architectural and urban visions for a European capital, Hein examines how these visions compare to the reality of the three headquarter cities for the European Union:... more
What makes up a capital city? In this first comprehensive look at the architectural and urban visions for a European capital, Hein examines how these visions compare to the reality of the three headquarter cities for the European Union: Strasbourg, Luxembourg, and Brussels. Tracing the history of the EU and its creation of the new political entity of the polycentric capital, Hein explores the impact that European unification has on visionary projects and the transformation of EU member cities. Widely researched, the book also brings in architectural projects that have remained largely unknown until now. Using architectural and urban history as a lens, Hein examines the past five decades of European unification. Also analyzed for the first time are the debates, plans, projects, and constructions-both realized and failed-that accompanied this process. Looking to the future, Hein asserts that the task of these three capital cities is to balance the needs of a collective Europe with national, local, and-increasingly-regional demands.
Research Interests: European integration, Urban History, Architectural History, European Parliament, Europeanization, and 12 moreBeaux Arts (Architecture history), Architectural Competitions, Council of Europe, European Commission, Paris, Capital Cities, Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg, History of Urban Planning, The Hague, and Council of the European Union
Research Interests: European integration, European Parliament, Urban And Regional Planning, Beaux Arts (Architecture history), Architectural Competitions, and 15 moreHistory of architecture, European Commission, Paris, Capital Cities, Milano, Paul Otlet, Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg, European Council, History of Urban Planning, Federal Capital Cities, European Unification, The Hague, and History of Capital Cities
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Nishiyama Uzō, educated as an architect between 1930 and 1933, was a key figure in Japanese urban planning. He was a prolific writer who influenced a whole generation of Japanese urban planners and his interpretations of foreign planning... more
Nishiyama Uzō, educated as an architect between 1930 and 1933, was a key figure in Japanese urban planning. He was a prolific writer who influenced a whole generation of Japanese urban planners and his interpretations of foreign planning and local practice still influence Japanese planning theory and practice today.
Nishiyama’s first publications date to the 1930s, and his last ones appeared in the 1990s, spanning a period of enormous political and spatial changes. The three articles translated here, originally published in the 1940s in professional magazines, show how Nishiyama developed his theoretical models based on a social approach to architecture and planning, focusing on land use and land control rather than aesthetic preferences. They provide insight into Nishiyama’s early thinking, his analysis of foreign examples, his reflection on large-scale regional and national spatial organization, and his architectural and urban visions, providing a remarkable and fascinating insight into the state of planning in Japan.
These texts call scholarly attention to the writing of a global planning history and invite the reader to engage with a major figure in planning who is largely unknown outside Japan; to reconsider Japanese planning history; and to work towards a truly global planning history. How does Nishiyama compare to the great urban planners of the past in the West, such as Patrick Geddes, Lewis Mumford, or Werner Hegemann? Many more translations will be necessary to answer this question.
Nishiyama’s first publications date to the 1930s, and his last ones appeared in the 1990s, spanning a period of enormous political and spatial changes. The three articles translated here, originally published in the 1940s in professional magazines, show how Nishiyama developed his theoretical models based on a social approach to architecture and planning, focusing on land use and land control rather than aesthetic preferences. They provide insight into Nishiyama’s early thinking, his analysis of foreign examples, his reflection on large-scale regional and national spatial organization, and his architectural and urban visions, providing a remarkable and fascinating insight into the state of planning in Japan.
These texts call scholarly attention to the writing of a global planning history and invite the reader to engage with a major figure in planning who is largely unknown outside Japan; to reconsider Japanese planning history; and to work towards a truly global planning history. How does Nishiyama compare to the great urban planners of the past in the West, such as Patrick Geddes, Lewis Mumford, or Werner Hegemann? Many more translations will be necessary to answer this question.
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A book’s cover is frequently the first visual element of a book that a reader encounters in a library, bookshop, or—most likely now—on the Internet. Combining the publisher’s usually predetermined logo, typography and layout with an image... more
A book’s cover is frequently the first visual element of a book that a reader encounters in a library, bookshop, or—most likely now—on the Internet. Combining the publisher’s usually predetermined logo, typography and layout with an image provided by the volume editor or author, the cover aims to convey multiple meanings. These meanings are particularly important in a field such as planning history, where visuals of the associated disciplines play an important role. Spatial planning and urban design convey multi-faceted ideas through masterplans that are often illustrated with memorable images. Planning history explores these images as part of its approach and needs to pay attention to the ways in which images convey meaning. Taking the example of the selection of the cover image for the Routledge Handbook of Planning History, the article presents how five different types of images addressed specific approaches of the handbook by showcasing cross-cultural exchange, identifying key words and terms of planning history, and using comic strips, games or art work as a means of translating the multiple themes of the book. This short reflective analysis concludes by asking for more investigation of the role of images as part of the changing role of planning in society and the built environment.
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Corporate and public actors have built the physical and financial flows of petroleum into the very landscape. This article identifies different layers of those flows— physical, represented, and everyday practices—that combine into a... more
Corporate and public actors have built the physical and financial flows of petroleum into the very landscape. This article identifies different layers of those flows— physical, represented, and everyday practices—that combine into a palimpsestic global petroleumscape. It posits that these layers historically became essential parts of modern society and of citizens’ everyday lives. Resulting path dependencies and an energy culture help maintain the buildings and urban forms needed for physical and financial oil flows and celebrate oil as a heroic cultural agent, in a feedback loop that leads societies to consume more oil. Following a general analysis, the article uses the Rotterdam/The Hague area, part of the North West European petroleum hub, as a case study of this feedback loop. Only in appreciating the power and extent of oil can we engage with the complex emerging challenges of sustainable design, policy making, heritage, and future built environments beyond oil.
Various constellations of oil actors—including corporations and nations—have shaped seemingly disconnected and geographically distant landscapes, cities, and buildings around the world over the last 150 years. Corporate, public, and... more
Various constellations of oil actors—including corporations and nations—have shaped seemingly disconnected
and geographically distant landscapes, cities, and buildings around the world over the last 150 years. Corporate,
public, and popular media have publicized these cycles of spatializing oil. Together, construction and
representation have created what is here collectively identified as a global palimpsestic petroleumscape. Based
on archival research and a flourishing literature of secondary sources, this article applies the concept of the
petroleumscape to two case studies in Iran and identifies two patterns of spatializing oil. First, in the southern
region of Khuzestan, it tracks Iran’s modern transformation under the influence of British Petroleum (BP)
(1901–1951), when oil and governmental interests built a complete support landscape. Then, in the capital
Tehran, it investigates how US players helped shape the petroleumscape between 1953 and 1979, in line with
US styles of consumption, car use, and urban development.
and geographically distant landscapes, cities, and buildings around the world over the last 150 years. Corporate,
public, and popular media have publicized these cycles of spatializing oil. Together, construction and
representation have created what is here collectively identified as a global palimpsestic petroleumscape. Based
on archival research and a flourishing literature of secondary sources, this article applies the concept of the
petroleumscape to two case studies in Iran and identifies two patterns of spatializing oil. First, in the southern
region of Khuzestan, it tracks Iran’s modern transformation under the influence of British Petroleum (BP)
(1901–1951), when oil and governmental interests built a complete support landscape. Then, in the capital
Tehran, it investigates how US players helped shape the petroleumscape between 1953 and 1979, in line with
US styles of consumption, car use, and urban development.
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Japan has been part of a transnational and cross-cultural exchange of planning ideas for many centuries. A comprehensive analysis of exchange between the island nation, its Asian neighbors, and the larger world is still missing, though... more
Japan has been part of a transnational and cross-cultural exchange of planning ideas for many centuries. A comprehensive analysis of exchange between the island nation, its Asian neighbors, and the larger world is still missing, though there is a growing interest in the study of transnational and cross-cultural urbanism. The articles in this special section illustrate the multiple ways in which foreign influences have shaped and changed Japanese urban form and in which Japanese practices have influenced the built environment elsewhere. They explore the theoretical, methodological and practical results of this exchange. Sites discussed are inside Japan, notably Nagasaki and Tokyo, and also in the Japanese colonies (specifically through the lens of Seoul); and also outside Japan, specifically the US and Europe. This introduction sets up the background and larger context of urban history and planning in Japan, identifies the threads that link the articles, and proposes further directions for research.
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This article explores how sub-national institutions – representations from cities and regions – help create a European imaginary in Brussels. Political scientists and other scholars have noted the importance of these city and regional... more
This article explores how sub-national institutions – representations from cities and regions – help create a European imaginary in Brussels. Political scientists and other scholars have noted the importance of these city and regional institutions, but have paid little attention to their physical form. Through a select set of case studies, this article analyses the vast impact that small-scale interventions in the use and re-imagination of select buildings occupied by the subnational institutions have on Brussels’ urban form and function. Focusing on representations from German states, notably the citystates of Hamburg and Bremen, and including select other city and regional offices, the present article offers some first ideas of how the physical presence of these small entities transforms European Brussels. It asks how the selection, construction, reuse and restoration of buildings for the subnational institutions reshape the urban patterns of Brussels, how their architecture and e...
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Abbot, Sophia, Alison Cook-Sather, and Carola Hein (2014) "Mapping Classroom Interactions: A Spatial Approach to Analyzing Patterns of Student Participation." Issue To Improve the Academy no. 33 (2): 131–152.
(2014) “Port cities and urban wealth: between global networks and local transformations” Int. J. of Global Environmental Issues, Vol. 13, Nos. 2/3/4, 339-361.
(2014) The exchange of planning ideas from Europe to the USA after the Second World War: introductory thoughts and a call for further research. Planning Perspectives: Special Issue on Transnational Urbanism (edited by Carola Hein).
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[ ] Une capitale européenne polycentrique et opportuniste : Un nouveau paradigme pour la localisation et la répartition géographique du siège des institutions de l'UE ainsi que pour la conception de quartiers européens à Bruxelles et dans... more
[ ] Une capitale européenne polycentrique et opportuniste : Un nouveau paradigme pour la localisation et la répartition géographique du siège des institutions de l'UE ainsi que pour la conception de quartiers européens à Bruxelles et dans d'autres villes d'accueil.
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This paper analyses the life and work of the French planner Maurice Rotival through his practical and theoretical work as well as his teachings in cities and regions in Europe, Africa and the Americas. Rotival's plans and projects reflect... more
This paper analyses the life and work of the French planner Maurice Rotival through his practical and theoretical work as well as his teachings in cities and regions in Europe, Africa and the Americas. Rotival's plans and projects reflect the influence of major events and changes of the twentieth century - two world wars and the advances in technology and research they promoted, the advent of the automobile, the subsequent urban transformations and large-scale demolitions - and influenced the development of planning in the twentieth century. Through five major steps of Rotival's international career, this article analyses the development of Rotival's pragmatic organic planning doctrine and his regional approach from his experience and training in France at the eve of the First World War, to his subsequent regional and urban planning work in Caracas, New Haven, Europe, Reims and other French cities until the 1980s. By considering Rotival's career as a part of economic globalization at a time when the colonial context was dismantled, the present article highlights the planner's role in societal transformation in collaboration with the e´lite and demonstrates the growing international exchange of planning ideas in the twentieth century.
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(2002): "Maurice Rotival: French Planning on a World-Scale (Part II)." Planning Perspectives 17, no. 4 (2002): 325-44. (The Planning Perspectives Best Article Prize 2002-03)
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(1996): "European Unification and the Planning Issue." Comprehensive Urban Studies, Tokyo Metropolitan University, no. 59 (1996): 85-112.
“The Randstad Landscape of Oil: Building a node in a global petroleum network” in: Vincent Nadin, Wil Zonneveld and Dominic Stead, Randstad: A Polycentric Metropolis, Routledge
(2016) “Imperial Visions and City Planning: Visions for Datong in the 1930s” in: Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, and Cary Karacas (eds.), Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
(2016) “Tange Kenzo’s Proposal for Rebuilding Hiroshima” in: Kären Wigen, Sugimoto Fumiko, and Cary Karacas (eds.), Cartographic Japan: A History in Maps, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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(2003): "Visionary Plans and Planners." in Nicolas Fiévé and Paul Waley (eds.) Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective, London, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 309-46.
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At a time of climate change, sea level rise, flooding, drought, and changing groundwater and rainwater patterns, water managers need to adjust their current practices and develop new approaches. Technological innovation remains a key... more
At a time of climate change, sea level rise, flooding, drought, and changing groundwater and rainwater patterns, water managers need to adjust their current practices and develop new approaches. Technological innovation remains a key element in adaptation and mitigation; but technological innovation is not enough. Changing water patterns will affect everyone and every structure. How we manage water depends on local conditions, spatial and social developments and cultures as well as decisions of the past. That is why water management needs to go hand in hand with sustainable practices that are connected to the context of specific places, social systems and cultures and their changes over time. Sustainable development also requires recognizing the long-term impact of buildings and human-made structures. They may have been erected in the past for specific purposes and functions that have disappeared or are no longer welcome, yet the buildings and landscapes still exist. Sometimes they ...
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Projet de recherche Ce projet de recherche a pour but d'étudier les effets des réseaux du pétrole sur le développement des villes et paysages [1]. En partant de l'idée que les flux du pétrole sont accompagnés de flux financiers,... more
Projet de recherche Ce projet de recherche a pour but d'étudier les effets des réseaux du pétrole sur le développement des villes et paysages [1]. En partant de l'idée que les flux du pétrole sont accompagnés de flux financiers, on peut montrer que le développement d'une ville dépend d'un développement qui a lieu de l'autre côté de la planète. L'exemple du pétrole, qui est intimement inséré dans l'économie d'une manière tout à fait unique, permet d'essayer de réfléchir à la façon dont des flux de réseaux peuvent s'inscrire dans l'environnement bâti et à quel niveau. Ce qui est particulièrement intéressant...
The book tells the story of the sea-land continuum based on the case of the North Sea — one of the world’s most industrialised seas, in which the Netherlands plays a central role. The space of the North Sea is almost fully planned and has... more
The book tells the story of the sea-land continuum based on the case of the North Sea — one of the world’s most industrialised seas, in which the Netherlands plays a central role. The space of the North Sea is almost fully planned and has been loaded with the task of increased economic production from new and traditional maritime sectors. At the same time, it has been emptied of cultural significance. Through diverse projects from academia, art, literature, and practice, from analysis to design, the book explores synergies for designing this new spatial realm. Port city expert Carola Hein, professor of the history of architecture & urban planning at Delft University of Technology, and Nancy Couling, associate professor at the Bergen School of Architecture and researcher of the urbanised sea, combine forces with interdisciplinary experts to guide the reader through this complex and fascinating topic. open access download of full book available here: https://books.bk.tudelft.nl/press/catalog/book/isbn.9789462085930
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Many megacities around the world are located in deltas where the possibilities of shipping and the availability of flat fertile lands have attracted large numbers of people, industries and businesses. These areas also face multiple... more
Many megacities around the world are located in deltas where the possibilities of shipping and the availability of flat fertile lands have attracted large numbers of people, industries and businesses. These areas also face multiple water-based challenges: the provision of clean drinking water, the cleaning of sewage water, subsidence, delivery of water for agricultural and industrial purposes, issues of land reclamation from the sea for agriculture and construction, but also protection against rising sea levels, salination or the need to keep waterways and ports open for shipping. These water-related challenges are interconnected and require coordinated and integrated responses from all stakeholders, city and regional governments, private and public actors, port authorities, as well as NGO’s and citizens. Exploring cities in urban deltas in general and port cities in particular from a long-term perspective shows that these cities have a long tradition of resilience, as diverse publi...
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Centuries of trade have left their traces in the culture and society of port cities. This paper explores the usefulness of the concept "maritime mindset" to recognize these traces, and analyses it from different disciplinary... more
Centuries of trade have left their traces in the culture and society of port cities. This paper explores the usefulness of the concept "maritime mindset" to recognize these traces, and analyses it from different disciplinary perspectives. In the second part, it proposes the practice of "deep mapping" as a methodology of identifying and documenting expressions of maritime culture and trade in public space. In conclusion, it addresses some questions that are crucial when addressing a maritime mindset, such as whether it is a top-down or bottom-up mindset, which spatial scale it entails, and whose values and interests the mindset represents. Ultimately, we argue that (deep) mapping can play a role in producing a more layered spatial, social and cultural understanding of the complex nature of port cities.
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The "port-city heritage" has recently gained more scholarly and professional attention. Yet, many questions remain in terms of terminology, characteristics, constituents or applicability of such a group of heritage objects.... more
The "port-city heritage" has recently gained more scholarly and professional attention. Yet, many questions remain in terms of terminology, characteristics, constituents or applicability of such a group of heritage objects. Understanding and defining the port city terms is crucial as it is intimately connected to what citizens and institutions deem valuable and choose to preserve. This article serves as the first step towards developing a shared vocabulary, as the foundation for a better understanding of specific values or identities inherent in port cities. In the world heritage list, we identified 107 sites related to port city. By decoding and analyzing the short abstracts of these sites with a systematic approach, we tried to understand how UNESCO conceptualize port-city heritage, how UNESCO acknowledge the value of port-city heritage sites, what the problematic issues are in this conceptualization and why, and how the historical urban landscape approach can contextual...
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Following part 1 of Port City Cultures, Values, and Maritime Mindsets, this issue explores how cultures of port city territories are put into words, visualized, and can even be shaped. Continuing the argument that port city territories... more
Following part 1 of Port City Cultures, Values, and Maritime Mindsets, this issue explores how cultures of port city territories are put into words, visualized, and can even be shaped. Continuing the argument that port city territories merit particular attention due to their location at the border of sea and land and the presence of global and local interests and stakeholders of differing sizes, this issue emphasizes once more the role that culture, values, and mindsets can play in understanding the historical relations and socio-spatial features of port cities, their socio-cultural construction, and their future design. The issue emphasizes the value of considering ways of perceiving, defining, and classifying port cities in relation to social context and powerful processes of meaning-making in academia and in the wider society.
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(2014). Das Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York und die Einführung europäischer Wohnungs-, Nachbarschafts- und Städtebaukonzepte in die USA. Informationen zur Modernen Stadtgeschichte, 86-98.
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Tianjin, one of the so-called Treaty Ports that opened to foreign trade under the unequal treaties was home to nine foreign concessions. In each concession, the foreign powers created urban forms and functions that mirrored practices in... more
Tianjin, one of the so-called Treaty Ports that opened to foreign trade under the unequal treaties was home to nine foreign concessions. In each concession, the foreign powers created urban forms and functions that mirrored practices in their respective home countries. This article explores the consecutive establishment and implementation of regulations in eight out of nine foreign concessions in Tianjin between 1860 and 1945. It firstly provides an overview of regulation types and legislative systems of the concessions. Secondly, it compares these regulations and bylaws with the ones in their home countries. Thirdly, it compares the specific cases of Tianjin concessions with each other. Finally, it places the Tianjin case in the context of other Chinese port city concessions. In conclusion, it argues that the regulations of concessions in Tianjin not only showed a strong influence from their home countries in a top-down setting, but also interacted with each other in a peer-to-peer...
This is particularly true for the Japanese case, where civil engineering has played a major role in the country's modernization and westernization since the mid-19th century. The design and engineering of Japanese ports from the 1870s... more
This is particularly true for the Japanese case, where civil engineering has played a major role in the country's modernization and westernization since the mid-19th century. The design and engineering of Japanese ports from the 1870s to 1890s is a case in point. This contribution explores the degree to which civil engineering engaged with port city design by studying investigative reports, design drawings and survey maps established by Dutch civil engineers in collaboration with Japanese practitioners. It identifies three types of cross-cultural engineering. 1. Building a new port: Some Dutch engineers proposed complex projects combining water management and port basins, jetties with urban form, but these were only partially implemented. 2. Improvement of Port Functions: The Japanese engineers were particularly receptive for the design of breakwaters, the practice of dredging and the construction of basins; notably the technique of breakwaters became a staple in textbook and sp...
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Natural disasters have destroyed, in whole or in part, Japan’s cities on numerous occasions. Human action, whether internal warfare or the air raids of the Second World War, has been the cause of further devastation. But regardless of the... more
Natural disasters have destroyed, in whole or in part, Japan’s cities on numerous occasions. Human action, whether internal warfare or the air raids of the Second World War, has been the cause of further devastation. But regardless of the origin of the destructive force, Japan has always rebuilt its cities, and usually with astonishing speed. This chapter argues that while urban disasters can bring about an opportunity for changes in the built environment, they do not appear to induce innovation per se. Many times, the Japanese rebuilt their cities much the same as they were before, innovating only slightly on building codes or urban form. At times of ongoing political, economic, and social transformation, however, the leadership sponsored urban change in the wake of destruction. These interventions, instead of responding to post-disaster conditions, were often pared-down versions of predisaster concepts, constrained by limited finances, the lack of appropriate planning tools, the s...
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Water has served and sustained societies throughout the history of humankind. People have actively shaped its course, form, and function for human settlement and the development of civilizations. Around water, they have created... more
Water has served and sustained societies throughout the history of humankind. People have actively shaped its course, form, and function for human settlement and the development of civilizations. Around water, they have created socioeconomic structures, policies, and cultures; a rich world of narratives, laws, and practices; and an extensive tangible network of infrastructure, buildings, and urban form. Today, the complex and diverse systems of the past are necessarily the framework for preservation and reuse as well as for new systems. Through twenty-one chapters in five thematic sections, this book links the practices of the past to a present in which heritage and water are largely two separate disciplinary and professional fields. It describes an alternative emerging present in which policymaking and design work together to recognize and build on traditional knowledge and skills while imagining how such efforts will help us develop sustainable futures for cities, landscapes, and ...
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Energy logistics is the management and implementation of energy flows and their physical artefacts. This sector has perpetuated and profited from a spatial and conceptual void produced by national and corporate strategies in order to... more
Energy logistics is the management and implementation of energy flows and their physical artefacts. This sector has perpetuated and profited from a spatial and conceptual void produced by national and corporate strategies in order to optimise logistical flows and to avoid larger societal debate. Offshore developments, in particular, take place far from the public eye and imagination though they form a core layer of the global petroleumscape. This article explores the history and development of the industrialised void of the North Sea and how energy logistics, strongly determined by the oil and gas industries, shields its presence while at the same time shaping and structuring the built environment at sea and across dedicated land-sea thresholds. Throughout this process, it persistently avoids the emergence of architectural form. We propose that the concept of blankness, first formulated by Roberto Mangabiera Unger and further discussed by Jeffrey Kipnis, is a useful framework for in...
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The article reflects the state of mathematics between the natural sciences and the humanities. By arguing that mathematics is a humanities subject, it suggests a close connection between mathematics and urban morphology studies. This also... more
The article reflects the state of mathematics between the natural sciences and the humanities. By arguing that mathematics is a humanities subject, it suggests a close connection between mathematics and urban morphology studies. This also applies to the discrepancy between quantitative and qualitative methodological approaches. New types of research based on quantitative methods reveal previously unknown aspects of urban phenomena. They will play an increasingly important role in future research, and it is a challenge for the humanities to effectively integrate mathematical perspectives on the human habitat.
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A recurrent claim associated with the development of star architecture buildings along new urban waterfronts is that star architecture’s capacity to garner media exposure can support a port city’s efforts to communicate narratives that... more
A recurrent claim associated with the development of star architecture buildings along new urban waterfronts is that star architecture’s capacity to garner media exposure can support a port city’s efforts to communicate narratives that support the process of urban transformation. However, despite the centrality of the role of the media, little evidence exists about the input of the media particularly in the inception phases of such projects where much of the legitimatization and conviction efforts by key actors takes place. This paper shows how newspaper narratives about star architecture proposed along the waterfront of a port city communicate transformation proposals, building on and propagating a sense of maritime belonging and culture. The case study presented is the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Germany. The findings are based on the content analysis of 420 newspaper articles, drawn from the LexisNexis database. The findings indicate that newspapers communicated the sense-making ...
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Conference co-organized by the Institute of Fine Arts; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; and Princeton University's School of Architecture.
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... Tokyo ryokuchi keikaku (1936) Tokyo Green Space Plan Tokyo sensaifukko Reconstruction Plan for Tokyo after World War II Tokyo shiku kaiseijorei Tokyo ... Bay ring road 68 Beard, Charles A. 31, 50 Bebauungsplan 41 Ben-Ari, Eyal 119... more
... Tokyo ryokuchi keikaku (1936) Tokyo Green Space Plan Tokyo sensaifukko Reconstruction Plan for Tokyo after World War II Tokyo shiku kaiseijorei Tokyo ... Bay ring road 68 Beard, Charles A. 31, 50 Bebauungsplan 41 Ben-Ari, Eyal 119 Beppu 37 Berry, Mary Elizabeth 141, 142 ...
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Architectural history in the 21st century is expanding beyond its traditional focus on specific styles, materials, or building typologies and on famous architects, iconic movements, or paradigmatic cities. Following other historical... more
Architectural history in the 21st century is expanding beyond its traditional focus on specific styles, materials, or building typologies and on famous architects, iconic movements, or paradigmatic cities. Following other historical fields that have embraced more complex approaches and adopted new analytical frameworks, architectural historians are exploring themes such as human relations, transnational networks, and cross-cultural exchanges. While changing their disciplinary scope, they are also finding novel ways to engage contemporary discussions – such as the ones held in Paris in December 2015 as part of COP21 on climate change, rising sea-levels, and sustainable energy futures beyond oil. In order to understand this complex present and to meaningfully imagine new futures, they can critically explore histories of iconography, symbolism, and imaginaries of select architecture and vernacular built form, analyzing their social, cultural, economic and aesthetic values.
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Nishiyama Uzo-, educated as an architect between 1930 and 1933, was a key figure in Japanese urban planning. He was a prolific writer who influenced a whole generation of Japanese urban planners and his interpretations of foreign planning... more
Nishiyama Uzo-, educated as an architect between 1930 and 1933, was a key figure in Japanese urban planning. He was a prolific writer who influenced a whole generation of Japanese urban planners and his interpretations of foreign planning and local practice still influence Japanese planning theory and practice today. Nishiyama’s first publications date to the 1930s, and his last ones appeared in the 1990s, spanning a period of enormous political and spatial changes. The three articles translated here, originally published in the 1940s in professional magazines, show how Nishiyama developed his theoretical models based on a social approach to architecture and planning, focusing on land use and land control rather than aesthetic preferences. They provide insight into Nishiyama’s early thinking, his analysis of foreign examples, his reflection on large-scale regional and national spatial organization, and his architectural and urban visions, providing a remarkable and fascinating insight into the state of planning in Japan. These texts call scholarly attention to the writing of a global planning history and invite the reader to engage with a major figure in planning who is largely unknown outside Japan; to reconsider Japanese planning history; and to work towards a truly global planning history. How does Nishiyama compare to the great urban planners of the past in the West, such as Patrick Geddes, Lewis Mumford, or Werner Hegemann? Many more translations will be necessary to answer this question.
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Petroleum and its refined products are globally traded commodities; they are also key elements in our energy landscape and have shaped the built environment in multiple, interconnected ways over the last century. Petroleum flows encompass... more
Petroleum and its refined products are globally traded commodities; they are also key elements in our energy landscape and have shaped the built environment in multiple, interconnected ways over the last century. Petroleum flows encompass the entire world. Constellations of oil actors — including corporations and nations — shape seemingly disconnected and geographically distant physical spaces over time. Together, they function as a global palimpsestic petroleumscape. Among the diverse industrial, administrative, retail and ancillary spaces that are part of this petroleumscape, this article argues, refineries have the most important “staying power.” It investigates exemplary cases in four select periods of the petroleum industry: the lighting age (1860s to 1910s), the car age (1910s to 1950s), the plastic age (1950s to 1980s), and the period since the 1980s with its early attempts to go beyond oil. In the first three periods, it explores the relationship between major refineries and...
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(2015): "Urban Planning: Competitions and Exhibitions." in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd, (revised and updated from 2001).
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Description: Political, economic, religious and cultural forces govern cities. These powers and their desires translate into the form and function of public spaces. This interdisciplinary graduate seminar first examines public space from... more
Description: Political, economic, religious and cultural forces govern cities. These powers and their desires translate into the form and function of public spaces. This interdisciplinary graduate seminar first examines public space from a theoretical perspective through lecture classes and student presentations. It will then investigate case studies throughout history and across the world. Finally, it will concentrate in depth on specific ancient and modern cities. Students in the class come from different backgrounds. In order to make the topic approachable for all and to give an interdisciplinary perspective, we have selected a large range of readings and will comment them in class prior to the day of discussion. We will comment on the readings prior to the class for which they are assigned. Requirements: Students will give presentations on assigned topics during the course and assign readings on their topic from the general bibliography as well as from other texts. You will post...
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ABSTRACT The transnational exchange of planning ideas after the Second World War was multi-directional. As this special issue demonstrates, while American concepts spread globally there was also a steady transfer of European ideas to the... more
ABSTRACT The transnational exchange of planning ideas after the Second World War was multi-directional. As this special issue demonstrates, while American concepts spread globally there was also a steady transfer of European ideas to the USA. European émigrés in the USA and American professionals explored the reconstruction of European downtowns, particularly in Northern Europe. This special issue builds on a growing interest in transnational planning history, including a desire to develop research and writing methods. The current issue contains an overview of secondary literature (Wakeman), a careful investigation of post-war professional transatlantic dialogue (Joch), research on the International Federation for Housing and Planning conference held in The Hague in 1958 (Wagner), and an examination of the term and concept of urban design throughout the Anglophone world (Orillard). The introduction also proposes further directions for research that consciously engages with changing global contexts, and studies their impact on planning beyond physical, theoretical, temporal or other boundaries, for example, discussing planners and plans that crossed the schism of the Cold War. It also calls for global integration of research tools and collaboration among researchers in the field.
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Close Document Image Close Document Printer Image Print This Document! Conservation Information Network (BCIN). Author: Hein, Carola; Ishida, Yorifusa Title Article/Chapter: "Japanische Stadtplanung und ihre deutschen ...
Brussels, Capital of Europe: Part of a Polycentric Headquarters System| CaRola Hein BrussEls, CapITal Of EurOpE: parT Of a pOlyCEnTrIC hEadquarTErs sysTEm Carola Hein 1. Introduction: Brussels and the polycentric and opportunistic capital... more
Brussels, Capital of Europe: Part of a Polycentric Headquarters System| CaRola Hein BrussEls, CapITal Of EurOpE: parT Of a pOlyCEnTrIC hEadquarTErs sysTEm Carola Hein 1. Introduction: Brussels and the polycentric and opportunistic capital of Europe Brussels's current ...
(2003): "Visionary Plans and Planners." in Nicolas Fiévé and Paul Waley (eds.) Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective, London, New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 309-46.
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This research aims to evaluate the sustainability of urban strategies in Skikda, a prehistoric, ancient, and Mediterranean port city of northeastern Algeria, known as by the Punic name Russicade. The port city of Skikda shows a diverse... more
This research aims to evaluate the sustainability of urban strategies in Skikda, a prehistoric, ancient, and Mediterranean port city of northeastern Algeria, known as by the Punic name Russicade. The port city of Skikda shows a diverse landscape of heritage sites and the industrial reality of a city, rich by its under-exploited cultural and tourist capacities. Nevertheless, the industrial port activities of the petrochemical refinery impose a state of urban vulnerability for the inhabitants and built, landscape, and natural heritage. The use of the open software Boussole21 of the "Smart" trend as a qualitative method allows assessment of decisions by the actors. The sustainability assessment (findings) shows that smart thinking contributes to the development of port performance and competitiveness in the international context.
Over the last decades, values have been re-addressed in planning, policies, businesses, heritage and education. While these fields seem to agree on the importance of values, it is often unclear what actors mean by values, and how they use... more
Over the last decades, values have been re-addressed in planning, policies, businesses, heritage and education. While these fields seem to agree on the importance of values, it is often unclear what actors mean by values, and how they use these values to shape decisions. A decade after a global financial crisis, in the midst of a global pandemic, and on the eve of global climate emergencies, difficult choices need to be made to safeguard a sustainable future. These choices call for value-driven deliberations, especially in the globally connected, multi-problem environment of the port city. To do that, however, stakeholders need to know what they mean when they talk about values, and how to deliberate them. In other words: they need to be value literate. In this article, we study the concept of value and values in the context of port cities in the past, present and future. After an analysis of historical uses of values in port cities, we assess six projects that explicitly and implic...
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In this chapter, the authors highlight three important strands of interpretation in Japanese planning history—one studying planning as a part of a general urban or architectural history, one focusing on planning as a discipline, and... more
In this chapter, the authors highlight three important strands of interpretation in Japanese planning history—one studying planning as a part of a general urban or architectural history, one focusing on planning as a discipline, and another emphasizing urban design. These strands of history writing speak to the difficulties of studying a country with a very different language, plus a long-standing and original culture. The authors aim to position the planning history writing on Japan in the context of global networks of planning historiography. Exploring the planning history writing inside and outside of Japan, they see different idioms that are related to specific interpretations, terminologies, and representations or perceptions of planning, but also to the use of planning primary materials, written and in imagery. The different perceptions of the role of planning are embedded in, and effectively partly result from, different idioms, both in words and visualizations.
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Port cities have long played a key role in the development, discovery, and fight against diseases. They have been laboratories for policies to address public health issues. Diseases reached port ci...
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(2014). Das Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York und die Einführung europäischer Wohnungs-, Nachbarschafts- und Städtebaukonzepte in die USA. Informationen zur Modernen Stadtgeschichte, 86-98.
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(2004): Carola Hein in: "Comments from Foreign Professionals about Japanese City Planning" City Planning Review, no.248. 9-12.
(2003): ""ICC (SIC)/CIC (SIC)." A+, no. 184, 68/94
(2003): "Wedstrijd (SIC)." A+, no. 184, 72.
(2001): "La culture des concours en Allemagne et au Japon." A+, no. 167, 96-102
(1999): "Een thuis voor de Europese democratie? Het Europees parlement in Straatsburg van Architecture Studio/A home for European democracy? The European Parliament in Strasbourg by Architecture Studio." Archis, no. 1, 52-59.
(1999): "Stadsplanning versus buurtvorming: kleinschalige stedebouw in Japan/Urban Planning Versus Community Building: Small-scale urbanism in Japan." Archis, no. 5, 44-51
(1999): "A Century of Architectural History." Archis, no. 12. 78-79.
(1998): "Prestige en vermaak, Grands projets in Japan/Prestige and Diversion, Grand projects n Japan." Archis, no. 2, 48-61
(1998): Hein, Carola, and Yorifusa Ishida. "Japanische Stadtplanung und ihre deutschen Wurzeln." Die Alte Stadt, no. 3 (1998): 189-211.
(1997): "Planning the New Capital City Berlin/Shin toshi Berlin no sekkei keikaku." The Comparative Urban History Review 16, no. 1. 12-15
(1996): "Polizeistation in Chofu." Bauwelt 87, no. 39, 2250-2251.
(1996): "Vijf woningen: recent werk van Shigeru Ban/Five houses: recent work by Shigeru Ban." Archis, no. 12, 54-65.
(1996): "Kobans in Tokio: Stadscultuur of modieuze accessoires?/Koban in Tokyo: urban culture or trendy extras." Archis, no. 8, 26-33.
(1996): "Moderne Referenties aan de Japanse Traditie: nieuw museum van Tadao Ando in Chikatsu Asuka/Modern References to Japanese Tradition: The New Museum by Tadao Ando in Chikatsu Asuka." Archis, no. 2, 40-45.
(1995): "Hoofdstad Europa: over de vestigingsproblematiek van de Europese Unie/A Capital for Europe: Where to House the European Union." Archis, no. 11, 62-73.
(1994): "Mietbüros an der Porte d'Italie, Paris." Bauwelt, no. 39, 2190-2193.
(1994): "Architectuur in Hamburg: de lessen van Schumacher/Architecture in Hamburg: Schumacher’s Lessons (exhibition and catalogue review)." Archis, no. 8, 8-10.
(1994): "Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris," Bauwelt, no. 37, 2060-2065.
(1994): "Im Sog des Riesen (CCI)." Bauwelt, no. 16/17, 900-901.
(1994): "Die Stadt - eine Collage? Ausstellung “Kunst und Architektur in Europa” (exhibition and catalogue review)." Stadtbauwelt, no. 12, 661-663.
(1994): "Opération Poste, 1500 Wohnungen für junge Postler in Paris." Bauwelt, no. 10, 468-469.
(1994): "Brüssel - hovedstad i Europa." Arkitektnytt, no. 16, 304-05
(1991): "Berlijn: prijsvraag Potsdamer en Leipziger Platz." Archis, no. 1 (1992): 6-7.
(1991): "De toekomst van Berlijn," Archis, no. 3, 4-5.
(1990): "Der öffentliche Raum im "Hauptstadt Berlin" Wettbewerb" 1957/58." Baukultur, no. 6, p. 16-19
Ashes and Granite: Destruction and Reconstruction in the Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath . By Olivia Muñoz-Rojas . The Cañada Blanch/Sussex Academic Studies on Contemporary Spain. Edited by Paul Preston. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, in association with the Cañada Blanch Centre for Conte...more
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2. (2013) Carola Hein, Peter V. Hall, Wouter Jacobs and Anne Langer-Wiese, “Conference Report: Port cityscapes: dynamic perspectives on the port–city–waterfront interface, Special Paper Sessions1 at the Annual Meeting of the Association... more
2. (2013) Carola Hein, Peter V. Hall, Wouter Jacobs and Anne Langer-Wiese, “Conference Report: Port cityscapes: dynamic perspectives on the port–city–waterfront interface, Special Paper Sessions1 at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 12 April 2013,” Town Planning Review, 84 (6) 2013, p. 905-810.
(2013) David W. Edgington, Carola Hein, “Conference report: Japanese cities in their global context. Special Paper Sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 13 April 2013” Town Planning... more
(2013) David W. Edgington, Carola Hein, “Conference report: Japanese cities in their global context. Special Paper Sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 13 April 2013” Town Planning Review, 84 (5) 2013, p. 665-669
(2013) “Roppongi Crossing: The Demise of a Tokyo Nightclub District and the Reshaping of a Global City. Roman Cybriwsky. University of Georgia, Press, Athens, GA, 2011.Urban Geography, 34 (5), p. 732-734.
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(2010) Axel Schildt / Dirk Schubert (Hrsg.), Städte zwischen Wachstum und Schrumpfung. Wahrnehmungs- und Umgangsformen in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Dortmund: Informationskreis für Raumplanung 2008, 256 S., € 21,-. (Review Essay) Die Alte... more
(2010) Axel Schildt / Dirk Schubert (Hrsg.), Städte zwischen Wachstum und Schrumpfung. Wahrnehmungs- und Umgangsformen in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Dortmund: Informationskreis für Raumplanung 2008, 256 S., € 21,-. (Review Essay) Die Alte Stadt, 4, 406-408.
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Urban reconstruction in Britain and Japan 1945-1955 dreams, plans, realities. Find what you want from DORA: All of DORA This Collection. Advanced Search. DORA. DORADe Montfort University Open Research Archive. You ...
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(2000): "Paola Di Biagi, La Carta d'Atene, (Book Review)." H-Urban, April 17. 2pp
(2000): "Barry Shelton, Learning from the Japanese City (Book Review)." Planning Perspectives, no. 4, 400-402
(1999): "Roman Cybriwsky, Tokyo: The Shogun´s City at the 21st Century, (Book Review)." Planning Perspectives, no. 3, 325-326.
(2015): "Urban Planning: Competitions and Exhibitions." in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd, (revised and updated from 2001).
(2015) “Professional and Academic Conferences on Port Cities. Connecting Past, Present, and Future” PORTUS: the online magazine of RETE, n.30, October 2015
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