Harald Engler (Author)
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.
...MoreArticle Christoph Bernhardt (December 2020) Urban automobility in Cold War Berlin: a transnational perspective. The Journal of Transport History (pp. 301-305).
Article
Carla Assmann;
(2020)
The emergence of the car-oriented city: Entanglements and transfer agents in West-Berlin, East-Berlin and Lyon, 1945–75
Article
Christoph Bernhardt;
(December 2020)
Urban automobility in Cold War Berlin: a transnational perspective
Article
Christoph Bernhardt;
(December 2020)
The making of the “Stadtautobahn” in Berlin after World War Two: a socio-histoire of power about urban automobile infrastructure
Book
Susan Handy;
(2023)
Shifting Gears: Toward a New Way of Thinking about Transportation
Article
Annika Levels;
(December 2020)
(Re-) claiming urban streets: The conflicting (auto)mobilities of cycling and driving in Berlin and New York
Book
Simon Gunn;
Susan C. Townsend;
Christopher Gerteis;
(2019)
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan
Article
Jacob Harris;
(2023)
“Car, car over all, it has taken a terrible hold of us”: Experiencing automobility in interwar Britain and Germany
Article
Colin Pooley;
(August 2021)
Walking spaces: Changing pedestrian practices in Britain since c. 1850
Book
Konstantinos Chatzis;
(2023)
Forecasting Travel in Urban America: The Socio-Technical Life of an Engineering Modeling World
Book
David J. Hess;
(2016)
Undone Science: Social Movements, Mobilized Publics, and Industrial Transitions
Article
Jascha Bareis;
Christian Katzenbach;
(2022)
Talking AI into Being: The Narratives and Imaginaries of National AI Strategies and Their Performative Politics
Thesis
Robert Buerglener;
(2006)
Creating the American automobile driver, 1898–1918
Book
Robert Braun;
Richard Randell;
(2022)
Post-automobility Futures: Technology, Power, and Imaginaries
Book
Timothy Moss;
(2025)
Grounding Berlin: Ecologies of a Technopolis, 1871 to the Present
Article
Martin Emanuel;
(June 2019)
From Victim to Villain: Cycling, Traffic Policy, and Spatial Conflicts in Stockholm, circa 1980
Article
Cédric Feriel;
(August 2023)
Rethinking the dominant modernist planning narrative: Investigating pedestrianisation in Europe, 1960s–1970s
Book
Christina E. Crawford;
(2022)
Spatial Revolution: Architecture and Planning in the Early Soviet Union
Book
James Lewis Longhurst;
(2015)
Bike Battles: A History of Sharing the American Road
Chapter
Berger, Michael L.;
(1992)
The car's impact on the American family
Book
Wachs, Martin;
Crawford, Margaret;
(1992)
The Car and the city: The automobile, the built environment, and daily urban life
Be the first to comment!