Urban Planning and Cultural Identity (The Rtpi Library by William Neill

By William Neill

City making plans and Cultural identification stories the serious spatiality of clash over id development in 3 towns the place tradition and position identification usually are not simply post-modernist playthings yet contact at the uncooked sensibilities of who humans outline themselves to be. Berlin because the reborn German capital has placed 'coming to phrases with' the Holocaust and the reminiscence of the GDR complete sq. on the centre of city making plans. Detroit increases questions on the impotence and complicity of planners within the face of the main severe metropolitan spatial apartheid within the usa and the place African-American identification now turns out set on a separatist direction. In Belfast, within the conflict of Irish nationalist and Ulster unionist traditions, position can tackle extreme emotional meanings relating to which planners as 'mediators of house' can look ailing equipped.The publication, drawing on large interview assets within the case learn towns, poses a question of vast relevance. Can planners model a task in utilizing environmental issues reminiscent of neighborhood time table 21 as a motor vehicle of creating a feeling of universal citizenship within which cultural distinction can embed itself?

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A government minister in the state of Brandenburg, Alwin Ziel, has broken with taboo and proposed that any future union of Berlin and Brandenburg, possible after a likely referendum in 2006, should create a new Land called Prussia. While other Berlin/Brandenburg politicians have been hostile to the idea, backers of the plan include the novelist Martin Walser and the poet Hans Magnus Enzensberger, both with liberal even radical pasts (Hooper, 2002). While the symbolism connected with the Reichstag and Brandenburg Gate has raised questions of the re-empowerment of existing national icons, other 44 Urban planning and cultural identity buildings and designs slightly further north in the Government Quarter of the Spreebogen have raised questions over the representation of German identity in the new-built fabric of the city.

Again, controversy and the presence of the past have been to the fore. In terms of building a new Chancellery for the executive branch of government and parliamentary office space to serve the needs of the legislature, attention turned in the early 1990s to the Spreebogen area, where the Spree river bends in Berlin. Close to the Reichstag, the area had the advantage of being cleared and available. The one fly in the ointment was that the clearance had been carried out by Hitler as the setting for his Great Hall and Führer’s Palast at the northern end of the planned North–South axis.

The final decision on the future design of the renovated building had been made in April of that year as the culmination of a lengthy process of discussion between Sir Norman Foster and a federal Building Commission in Bonn set up in 1991 to take charge of practicalities associated with the capital move and reporting to a Parliamentary Advisory Committee in the CDU-dominated Bundestag. In June of 1993 Foster had won an international architectural design competition organized by the Building Commission for the redesign of the Reichstag building, but a sticking point had been the insistence of opinion, especially among CDU/CSU MPs in the Bundestag and against the wishes of 42 Urban planning and cultural identity Foster, that a restored Reichstag without a cupola was a symbolic break with history taken too far (Mönninger, 2000: 393).

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