A New Beginning?

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Detlef Briesen and Wendelin Strubelt I Spatial planning in selected European countries Spatial planning in Switzerland from 1945 to 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Martina Schretzenmayr The role of spatial planning in the organization of Poland's space 1945-1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Tadeusz Marszal Polish regional and spatial planning, a short account of 20thplus century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Grzegorz Gorzelak A long path. Spatial planning and research in Austria from 1945 until 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Gerhard Schimak Amenagement du territoire in France 1945-1975: a synchronic analysis . . . 105 Frederic Santamaria 1945-1975: What if Italy had been reconstructed through spatial planning? . . . 123 Maria Prezioso The Spanish case: from integral to sectoral plans; from land use to building permits for economic growth and developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Joaquin Farinos Dasi Barcelona 1950-1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Andreu Ulied 6 Contents Dutch spatial planning experience, the era of rebuilding 1950-1975 . . . 203 Len de Klerk and Ries van der Wouden Luxembourg-Kirchberg: heading towards the new European city . . . . . 217 Markus Hesse Land use, settlement, regional and territorial planning in the German Democratic Republic - on concepts and significance of spatial planning in Eastern Germany 1945-1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Wendelin Strubelt Spatial planning in Western Germany from 1945 to 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Detlef Briesen II Reflexions Spatial planning in Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany. Approaches to a comparison for the period after 1945 - with a view to future perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Martin Lendi Dutch planning: insider/outsider perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Andreas Faludi FrenchAmenagement du Territoire: roots and underlying narratives. New perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Guy Baudelle and Jean Peyrony III European perspectives Spatial planning in Europe: from curiosity and engagement to scepticism and hope - a planner's European journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 Klaus R. Kunzmann In search of unknowable novelty - a challenge to European spatial planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 Peter Ache A short history of European spatial policy since 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Karl Peter Schoen Contents 7 What if there had been a spatial vision for Europe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 Kai Boehme and Maria Toptsidou Appendix About the authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463