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Rethinking the dominant modernist planning narrative: Investigating pedestrianisation in Europe, 1960s–1970s (August 2023)

Cédric Feriel (Author)

The Journal of Transport History
Volume: 44
Issue: 2
Pages: 233-253

URI: https://doi.org/10.1177/00225266231188606

DOI: 10.1177/00225266231188606

Publication Date: August 2023
Edition Details: Special issue: (Un)equal footing
Language: English

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Modernism Urban planning Mobility Cities and towns Automobiles Public policy Pedestrians 20th century Europe

This article intends to discuss the 1970s as a breaking point in both urban and transport history. The dominant narrative of urban planning sets two periods after 1945 in opposition: the post-war modernist and car-oriented city on the one hand, and on the other hand the (more) sustainable and pedestrian-oriented city that supposedly started to arise in the 1980s. This time frame reveals the importance given to the narrative of the avant-garde, the great intellectual figures, and the national policies in urban history. The paper decentres the investigation into the history of pedestrianisation in Europe and highlights how “anonymous” city engineers and local urban planners produced alternative pathways to modernisation as early as the 1950s. The European municipal movement for pedestrianisation appears as the missing link between the radical functionalist approach of post-war modern planning, and the present trend in favour of public space and walkability.

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Article Martin Emanuel; Daniel Normark (2023) (Un)equal footing: Otherings and orderings of urban mobility. The Journal of Transport History (pp. 165-182). unapi

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