Article ID: CBB072777198

Social movement and the failure of car-friendly city projects: East and West Berlin (1970s and 1980s) (December 2020)

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Harald Engler (Author)


The Journal of Transport History
Volume: 41
Issue: 3
Pages: 353-380


Publication Date: December 2020
Edition Details: Special issue: Urban automobility in Berlin
Language: English

The second half of the twentieth century was marked by predominantly car-friendly urban planning, provoking also resistance. This article will analyse the urban social movement against the car-friendly city, using the case of Berlin. The main aim is to define how modern urban societies on both sides of the Iron Curtain competed over their urban mobility infrastructures. The analysis will focus on two case studies: for West Berlin, the citizens’ initiative “Westtangente” formed against urban highways, as well as the broader protest movement against the marginalisation of non-automobile forms of mobility, will be analysed; For East Berlin, a socialist type of car-friendly urban planning failed to realise a number of major motorways that would have passed through a Jewish cemetery, together with the emergence of a small protest movement that formed under the umbrella of the Protestant Church.

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Authors & Contributors
Christoph Bernhardt
Susan C. Townsend
Annika Levels
Schaffer, Guy
Carla Assmann
Christian Katzenbach
Concepts
Automobiles
Urban planning
Technology and society
Cross-national comparison
Public policy
Automobility
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Germany
United States
Berlin (Germany)
Great Britain
Sweden
Nagoya (Japan)
Institutions
Berlin Group (Philosophy)
Vienna Circle
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