Urbanism and Transport: Building Blocks for Architects and City and Transport Planners

Helmut Holzapfel's Urbanism And Transport In Germany, A Bestseller In Its Own Country, Now Available In English, Examines The History And The Future Of Urban Design For Transport In Major European Cities. Holzapfel Shows The Social Impact Of The Automobile Throughout German And European History, And The Cultural, Political, And Economic Processes That Promoted It. From The Unlikely Birth Of The Automobile In Germany, And Its Shared History With The Fascist Government Of 1933-1945, To New Models Of Shared Space And Street And Settlement Networks, Holzapfel Shows How The Car Has Shaped The Urban Fabric Of Europe, From Roads, To Neighborhoods And Houses, To The City At Large. Focusing Not Just On Planning, But On Historical, Architectural, And Economic Factors, Urbanism And Transport In Germany Offers New Vistas And Solutions To Problems Of Urban Sprawl And Automobile-centric Urban Design--provided By Publisher. Introduction -- Streets And Transport: Separation Or Connection? -- What We Think About Transport And Urbanism -- Mobility: A Culture And A Phenomenon Of Industrialisation -- The Relationship Of Urban Development And Transport -- A Few Hypotheses And Methodological Approaches To Clarify The Relation Of Urbanism And Transport -- Persons And Space -- What Is The City, What Are Urban Conditions? Regarding The Object Of Analysis -- House, Street, Network - Small-scale Organisation And Urbanism -- The Role Of Small-scale Spatial Relationships -- The Street And The House In The Settlement -- Street Networks And The Intersection -- Separation, Disintegration And Displacement - The Strategies Of Industrialisation In Transport -- Background -- The Separation Of The House From The Street And The Loss Of The Street As A Place To Spend Time -- Changes In The Transport Networks -- The Prevalence Of Distance-oriented Planning In The 1950s And 60s - And The Isolation Of Residents In New Fordist Forms Of Settlement -- The Development Of The Street Network -- Social Aspects Of The Organisation Of The City And Transport -- Transport And Social Space -- The Interaction Of Transport Networks And Social Relations -- Bigger And Bigger, Further And Further! - The Fascination And Implementation Of The Enormous In The Previous Century -- Development Of Axis Concepts -- The Accelerated And Unrestricted Development Of Transport Infrastructure And The Apogee Of Fordist Planning -- Critical Or Alternative Transport Planning In Germany Since The 1970 -- Desolate Locations Or The Forgotten Basis Of A Critique Of Modernism -- Post-modern Transport Planning -- The Locality In Global Competition Or The City As Point In A Transport Network -- Bridges In The Archipelago: Creating New Networks -- What Are Examples Of New Transport Planning In Germany And In Europe As A Whole? Helmut Holzapfel. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 105-111) And Index.