Image: Special mapping of Patras, Greece Abstract This chapter provides an insight into those endeavours that aim to address the issue of creating a renewed and competitive image of a city, using new ways of reading and presentation with an emphasis on linking local data with those of other international areas. The authors, Petridou and …
Abstract The Smouha City Venture is a collaborative work between Richard Smouha, Cristina Pallini and Marie-Cécile Bruwier. Together they explore various aspects in the creation, development and urbanization of Smouha City, a suburb of Alexandria in Egypt. The book intertwines antiquity, historical and recent architectural discoveries and first-hand accounts of the events proceeding, during and …
Abstract Cross-checking documents, surveys, town-planning schemes, references and projects, this paper explores the processes through which cosmopolitan Smyrna was rebuilt after the fire of 1922 and became a national port-city seat of the newly-established trade fair. Some key ideas for the future of the city – a new university, port extension, and a workers’ district …
Abstract This is a contribution from Italy to the wider debate on the future of cities following World War II, when major problems of reconstruction were being faced. After so much devastation all over the country, radical intervention was required in cities loaded with historical significance. At the same time suburban areas were becoming subjected …
Abstract This contribution examines Alexandria’s recent waterfront projects conceived before the economic crisis of 2008, and the riots of January 2011. Such projects bear witness to a globalisation process driven by multinational corporate strategies, as well as to a changing physical and functional relationship between the city and its port. While claiming the importance of …
Abstract This if the book of proceedings of the MODSCAPES Conference held in Tartu, Estonia, June 11-13, 2018. MODSCAPES Modernist Reinventions of the Rural Landscape (HERA Call “Uses of the past” – grant 5087-00420A) compared a number of agricultural colonisation projects implemented during the 20th century across Europe (and beyond). Conceived in different political and …
Abstract This paper explains how streets and their facing buildings in the southern Chinese city of Amoy (Xiamen) were redesigned during a city improvement plan in the early 1930s. By using a map from the “Simingxilu and Shengpinglu Street Plan” and other planning documents, I show how the new street plan was superimposed atop the …
Image credits: @ Drawings by Monterumisi Abstract At the turn of the 20th century travel towards the South has still embodied a crucial step in Nordic architects’ self-development, but, they were able to go beyond the common mode of contemplation spread by the previous Grand Tour’s approach. The paper examines a case-study apparently remote from …
Image credits: @ Drawings by Monterumisi and Porotto Abstract The paper aims to look back on some valuable accomplishments at the beginning of the 20th century, built in Stockholm (1916-1930) and Vienna (1919-1933). Selected case studies of the two cities – analysed through original items and the re-drawings of plans done by the authors – provide a clear framework to …
Image credits: @ Drawings and photos by Monterumisi Abstract Although from the 1930s on Sweden led and inspired the rest of war-ravaged Europe in town planning and housing, its 1920s contributions tend to be overlooked, and the so-called Swedish Grace, with its classical echoes, appeared alien to avant-gardism. But mass housing was not just a …