Disorderly Cities
Richard J. Evans: WW2 Town Planning, 5 December 2013
A Blessing in Disguise: War and Town Planning in Europe, 1940-45
edited by Jörn Düwel and Niels Gutschow.
DOM, 415 pp., €98, August 2013,978 3 86922 295 0 Show More
edited by Jörn Düwel and Niels Gutschow.
DOM, 415 pp., €98, August 2013,
“... In 1941, the architect Hans Stosberg drew up ambitious plans for a new model town, with monumental public buildings grouped around a main square, and leafy boulevards branching off a central avenue which led to the factory complex that would provide the bulk of the work for a population of 80,000. There were to be twelve schools, six kindergartens, twenty sports fields, swimming pools, offices, banks, shops and a number of satellite settlements, every one of them constructed around a main square and equipped with similar public buildings and modern amenities ... ”
