Planning Europe's Capital Cities: Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Urban Development (Studies in History, Planning and the Environment, 21)

During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major expansion and improvement schemes. From Vienna's Ringstrasse to the boulevards of Paris, the townscapes which emerged still shape today's cities and are an inalienable part of European cultural heritage.In Planning Europe's Capital Cities, Thomas Hall examines the planning process in fifteen of those cities and addresses the following questions: when and why did planning begin, and what problems was it meant to solve? who developed the projects, and how, and who made the decisions? what urban ideas are expressed in the projects? what were the legal consequences of the plans, and how did they actually affect subsequent urban development in the individual cities? what similarities or differences can be identified between the various schemes? how have such schemes affected the development of urban planning in general?His detailed analysis shows us that the capital city projects of the nineteenth century were central to the evolution of modern planning and of far greater impact and importance than the urban theories and experiments of the Utopians. BOOK COVER......Page 1 HALF-TITLE......Page 2 TITLE......Page 5 COPYRIGHT......Page 6 CONTENTS......Page 7 FOREWORD......Page 9 PREFACE......Page 11 1. INTRODUCTION......Page 13 2. FROM HIPPODAMUS TO HAUSSMANN TOWN PLANNING IN A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE......Page 20 3. PARIS......Page 75 4. LONDON......Page 109 5. HELSINKI......Page 119 6. ATHENS......Page 126 7. CHRISTIANIA......Page 147 8. BARCELONA......Page 156 9. MADRID......Page 177 10. COPENHAGEN......Page 193 11. VIENNA......Page 203 12. BERLIN......Page 225 13. STOCKHOLM......Page 240 14. BRUSSELS......Page 259 15. AMSTERDAM......Page 279 16. BUDAPEST......Page 291 17. ROME......Page 302 18. THE BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION FOR THE PLANS......Page 311 19. THE AUTHORS OF THE PLANS......Page 320 20. THE DECISION PROCESS......Page 325 21. CONTENT AND PURPOSE OF THE PLANS......Page 334 22. ELEMENTS OF THE PLANS......Page 353 23. ATTITUDES TO THE CITYSCAPE......Page 383 24. IMPLEMENTATION AND RESULTS......Page 396 25. THE ROLE OF THE CAPITAL CITY PROJECTS IN PLANNING HISTORY......Page 406 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 440 MAJOR EVENTS IN NINETEENTHCENTURY PLANNING DISCUSSED IN THE BOOK......Page 458 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 461 INDEX OF TOWNS AND CITIES......Page 465 INDEX OF PERSONS......Page 471 Thomas Hall. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [373]-385) And Index.