History of spatial planning
- Development up to the First World War
- The 1920s
- Spatial planning in the National Socialist period
- The early post-war period (1945-1960)
- Spatial planning in the German Democratic Republic
- Spatial planning in der Federal Republic of Germany in the 1960s and 1970s: planning optimism and crisis
- Spatial planning in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1980s: loss of significance and ecologisation
- Development since reunification
- Conclusions
Additional literature
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.