Article ID: CBB736723458

The emergence of the car-oriented city: Entanglements and transfer agents in West-Berlin, East-Berlin and Lyon, 1945–75 (2020)

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Carla Assmann (Author)


The Journal of Transport History
Volume: 41
Issue: 3
Pages: 328-352


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

It is well known how the planning model of a “car-oriented city” was common among Western experts in the post-Second World War period, but here we claim this approach was common in both sides of divided Berlin. Investigating East- and West-Berlin’s reconstruction, here we analyse the relationship between the transnational sphere of circulation and its local realisations. Focusing on the leading figures of urban planning in West- and East-Berlin (who acted as “transfer agents”, participating in the transnational discourse) let us to better frame Berlin’s urban history in the 1960s and 1970s. The example of Lyon as France’s most “car-friendly city” is included in the analysis, so to transcend traditional perspectives of Cold War-antagonism, as well as to show the diverse and multilateral ways of exchange. Finally, the findings of the article will put the established periodisation of the “car-oriented city” in question.

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Authors & Contributors
Christoph Bernhardt
Flonneau, Mathieu
Ghazal, Yazan Abu
Gunn, Simon
Lundin, Per
Milkov, Nikolay
Journals
The Journal of Transport History
Transfers
History of Psychiatry
Technikgeschichte: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technik und Industrie
Publishers
Bloomsbury Academic
MIT Press
University of Minnesota Press
University of Pittsburgh Press
Loubatières
Chiado Books
Concepts
Urban planning
Automobiles
Land transportation
Mobility
Cities and towns
Public policy
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
Berlin (Germany)
Germany
Europe
Great Britain
France
Japan
Institutions
Vienna Circle
Victoria and Albert Museum
Berlin Group (Philosophy)
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