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Rebuilding Europe's Bombed Cities

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  1. Jeffry M. Diefendorf

    1. University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA

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An exploration of Europe's urban reconstruction after World War II, this volume contains 12 essays, based on new research which examine the significant architectural continuities in pre-war and post-war building. They highlight the unusual character of rebuilding in several case studies.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: New Perspectives on a Rebuilt Europe

    • Jeffry M. Diefendorf
    Pages 1-15

  3. Reconstructors’ Tales: an Example of the Use of Oral Sources in the History of Reconstruction after the Second World War

    • Danièle Voldman
    Pages 16-30

  4. Between Regionalism and Functionalism: French Reconstruction from 1940 to 1945

    • Rémi Baudoui
    Pages 31-47

  5. Continuities in Belgian Wartime Reconstruction Planning

    • Pieter Uyttenhove
    Pages 48-63

  6. Planning the Impossible: History as the Fundament of the Future — the Reconstruction of Middelburg, 1940–4

    • J. E. Bosma
    Pages 64-76

  7. Warsaw: Destruction, Secret Town Planning, 1939-44, and Postwar Reconstruction

    • Stanislaw Jankowski
    Pages 77-93

  8. People, Politics and Planning: the Reconstruction of Coventry’s City Centre, 1940–53

    • Tony Mason, Nick Tiratsoo
    Pages 94-113

  9. Hamburg: the ‘Catastrophe’ of July 1943

    • Niels Gutschow
    Pages 114-130

  10. German Reconstruction as an International Activity

    • Friedhelm Fischer
    Pages 131-144

  11. The Lijnbaan (Rotterdam): a Prototype of a Postwar Urban Shopping Centre

    • E. R. M. Taverne
    Pages 145-154

  12. The Reconstruction of the Buda Castle Hill after 1945

    • Erzsebet C. Harrach
    Pages 155-169

  13. Reconstruction of the City Centre of Dresden: Planning and Building during the 1950s

    • Jürgen Paul
    Pages 170-189

  14. Reconstruction in the German Democratic Republic

    • Klaus Von Beyme
    Pages 190-208

  15. Reconstruction: its Place in Planning History

    • Gordon E. CHERRY
    Pages 209-228

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 229-234
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA

    Jeffry M. Diefendorf

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Rebuilding Europe's Bombed Cities

  • Editors: Jeffry M. Diefendorf

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10458-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1990

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-10458-1Published: 30 December 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 250

  • Topics: European History, Modern History, Architecture, general

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