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Index
[Cover and Title]
About the book
Vita
Contents
Martin Baumeister, Bruno Bonomo, Dieter Schott: Introduction: Contested Cities in an Era of Crisis
»Save Our Cities Now!« The Perception of Urban Crisis in the Early 1970s
The 1970s as a Period of Structural Rupture
»Parallel Histories«? The Comparison between Italy and West Germany
Focal Points and Structure of the Volume
Urban Politics and Visions of the City
The Historic City between Protection and Reinvention
Contested Spaces and Social Movements
Transfer, Convergence and the »Model Italy«
Lutz Raphael: The 1970s—a Period of Structural Rupture in Germany and Italy?
The Events of the Seventies and their Effects in a Comparative Perspective
Long-Term Effects of the Red Years: Political Reforms and Social Change
Converging Continuities: Effects of Longue Durée
After the Boom Years: The Making of a New Political Economy
Conclusion
Urban Politics and Visions of the City
Francesco Bartolini: Changing Cities. An Urban Question for the Italian Communist Party
The Gramscian Tradition
Echoes of Neo-Marxism
The Evils of the Modern City
Ruling the New Metropolis
Rethinking the Urban Question
Conclusion
Roberto Colozza: Nights of Miracles in Rome? The »Estate Romana« in the »Years of Lead« (1976–1979)
Introduction
The PCI in Rome in the Seventies. The Birth of a Political Leadership
The Estate Romana. Redesigning the City Through Culture
The Estate Romana: from Ephemeral Happening to Cultural Landmark
Conclusion
Vittorio Vidotto: Corviale, Rome. An Architectural and Social Utopia of the Seventies
The Genealogy of Corviale
The Project
Life in Corviale
Giovanni Cristina: The »Villaggio del Pilastro«. Urban Planning, Social Housing and Grassroots Mobilization in a Suburb of Bologna (1960–1985)
Introduction
Social Mobilization and Right to Housing (1966–1971)
Building up a Participative Community: School and Public Services
Participation Diversifies, the Pilastro Changes (1974–1986)
Conclusions
Grazia Prontera: Munich–City of Immigration? Integration Policies and Italian Active Participation in Munich Political and Social Life through Italian Organizations in the 1970s
The Origin of Integration Policies and of the Local Consultative Body for Foreign Citizens in Munich
Italians and Their Organizations in 1970s Munich
Conclusions
The Historic City between Protection and Reinvention
Gerhard Vinken: Escaping Modernity? Civic Protest, the Preservation Movement and the Reinvention of the Old Town in Germany since the 1960s
A Threshold Moment
Crisis of the City
Old Town and Historic Ensemble
The Historic City in the European Year of Architectural Conservation 1975
Heimatschutz, Harmonization and Reconstruction
Conclusion
Guido Zucconi: »La Festa è Finita!« The Question of »Centri Storici« in 1970s Italy
Some Catastrophes of the Late 1960s
A New Notion of Cultural Heritage
The Centro Storico as a New Emerging Question
The Bologna Model
The Limits to (Any Kind of) Growth
Harald Bodenschatz: Bologna and the (Re-)Discovery of Urban Values
Preservational Urban Renewal of the Entire Historic Center
A City with a Public Service Agenda
No Displacement of the Poorer Resident Population
Municipal Decentralization: Enabling Social Control
State Decentralization: Founding of the Emilia Romagna Region
The Crisis of the Bologna Model
Conclusion
Jost Ulshöfer: From »Vecchio Nucleo Cittadino« to »Centro Storico«. On Bologna’s Preservation Policies and the Social Cost of Urban Renewal (1955–1975)
Introduction
Plans for the City Center, 1955–1960
Carta di Gubbio, Riforma Urbanistica and Rinnovamento of the PCI
Indagine settoriale and Piano per il Centro Storico
Changes around 1970
PEEP / Centro Storico
Conclusions
Melania Nucifora: Protection of Cultural Heritage and Urban Development. Catania and Syracuse in the Seventies: A Comparative Approach
The Great Transformation Changed the Traits of the Bel Paese
The Conflict Between Protection and Development: From Elitism to the Idea of Heritage and Landscape as a Right
The Sixties as Incubator of the Turning Point. Three Key Points of the Change
Comparing Catania and Syracuse: Economy, Culture, and Politics
After the Mancini Law: A New Way to Create a City
The Statute of Historical Heritage in the Age of Protest
The Idea of Landscape: From Functionalism to Ecology
Conclusion
Contested Spaces and Social Movements
Freia Anders / Alexander Sedlmaier: »Squatting means to destroy the capitalist plan in the urban quarters«: Spontis, Autonomists and the Struggles over Public Commodities (1970–1983)
Autoriduzione
The Crisis of the Cities
Frankfurt
Public Transport Fare Increases
Squatting in West Berlin
Comparison Frankfurt—Berlin
Conclusion
Sebastian Haumann: »Movimento del ‘77« Perceived. Reinvigorating Urban Protest in West Germany
Urban Issues and the Italian Model
Urban Culture as an Object of Contention
Self-Identification as »Urban Indians«
»Two Cultures« and Urban Lifestyles
Conclusions
Luciano Villani: The Struggle for Housing in Rome. Contexts, Protagonists and Practices of a Social Urban Conflict
Introduction
Tradition and Innovation in the Struggle for Housing in the Early Seventies
Social Embeddedness and the Repertoire of Action in Urban Social Movements Development
The Movement of House Squatting in the Winter 1973–74 and the San Basilio Revolt
Conclusion
Christian Wicke: Urban Movement à la Ruhr? The Initiatives for the Preservation of Workers’ Settlements in the 1970s
Introduction
The Settlement Initiatives and the 1970s in the Ruhr
The »Right to the City«: the Emergence of an Alternative Public
A Conceptual Exploration of the Workers’ Settlement Movement
Conclusion
Notes on Authors
Index of Names
Index of Places
Notes
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