Culture, Urbanism and Planning

Professor Javier Monclus and Professor Manuel Guardia are both at the Valles School of Architecture, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

I: Historial and Cultural Perspectives; 1: History Builds the Town: On the Uses of History in Twentieth-century City Planning; 2: The Cultural Dimension of Urban Planning Strategies: An Historical Perspective; 3: Speak, Culture! – Culture in Planning's Past, Present and Future; II: Images and Heritages; 4: Capital Cities and Culture: Evolution of Twentieth-century Capital City Planning; 5: The Power of Anticipation: Itinerant Images of Metropolitan Futures Buenos Aires 1900–1920 1; 6: Words and History: Controversies on Urban Heritage in Italy; 7: Urban Destruction or Preservation? Conservation Movement and Planning in Twentieth-century Scandinavian Capitals; 8: Planning the Historic City: 1960s Plans for Bath and York 1; 9: Multiple Exposures or New Cultural Values? European Historical Centres and Recent Immigration Fluxes; 10: New Urbanism and Planning History: Back to the Future; III: Cultural Urbanism and Planning Strategies; 11: Branding the City of Culture – The Death of City Planning?; 12: International Exhibitions and Planning. Hosting Large-scale Events as Place Promotion and as Catalysts of Urban Regeneration; 13: Contemporary Urban Spectacularisation; 14: Culture, Tradition and Modernity in the Latin American City. Some Recent Experiences; 15: ‘Cities Are Fun!': Inventing and Spreading the Baltimore Model of Cultural Urbanism