The Compendium of Urban and Regional Development

1. Development up to the First World War
2. The 1920s
3. Spatial planning in the National Socialist period
4. The early post-war period (1945-1960)
5. Spatial planning in the German Democratic Republic
6. Spatial planning in der Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s and 1970s: planning optimism and crisis
7. Spatial planning in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1980s: loss of significance and ecologisation
8. Development since reunification
9. Conclusions

Spatial planning as a political/administrative field of action was first institutionalised predominantly at the municipal level in the 1920s, and at the state level in the 1930s. A comprehensive multi-level system of spatial planning was created in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s and adopted in the new states after reunification.

1. New planning conditions at the turn of the 19th century and the development of planning law
2. Urban expansion and urban redevelopment in the 19th century
3. Urban design reforms around 1900
4. The Fordist social model and its effects on city planning
5. Urban planning in the Weimar Republic
6. Urban planning in the National Socialist period
7. Urban expansion and urban redevelopment after 1945 in the Federal Republic of Germany
8. Urban expansion and urban redevelopment in the German Democratic Republic

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The history of urban planning in Germany begins in the 19th century and is characterised by the new social phenomenon of a divided creation of towns by private landowners and the local authority responsible for planning. Urban planning emerged against a background of technological and sociopolitical changes. The essential threads of urban expansion, urban redevelopment and the emergence of planning instruments will be outlined alongside central developmental phases chronologically up to 1990, emphasising the continuities and disruptions.

1. Exploring the German term Wohnen (dwelling, housing)
2. The ideal type of modern dwelling
3. Postmodern transformations of living conditions
4. The transformation of ways of life – consequences for urban dwelling and housing

Based on etymological understandings of the German term Wohnen (dwelling, housing), this article describes the ideal type of dwelling using five socio-historical development strands. Fundamental processes of the post-modern transformation of living conditions are interpreted in terms of their relevance for dwelling and housing today. Reurbanisation and multilocality are explained in depth as central factors influencing urban housing.