Who plans the planning? : architecture, politics, and mankind

Martin Schmitz: From Critical Urban Studies to
the Science of Walking p.7
Jesko Fezer: Politics-Environment-Mankind p.12
POLITICS p.17
Urban Planning and Democracy (1957) p.19
Construction: A Process with No Obligations to
Historic Preservation (1967) p.25
Political Decisions in Construction Planning (1970) p.42
The Drawbacks of Leitbilder [Models) for
Decision-Making (1971) p.54
Who Plans the Planning? (1974) p.65
Communication and the Built Environment (1978) p.80
Between Patchwork and the Master Plan (1982) p.90
The Future Which Failed To Arrive (1982) p.97
Architecture: An Art or A Science? (1983) p.104
The End of Polytechnic Solvability (1989) p.110

ENVIRONMENT p.119
The Urban Crisis (1961) p.121
The Revolution Did Not Happen (1964) p.129
On the Value and Meaning of Urban Utopias (1968) p.135
Signs of the Times (1973) p.148
Aesthetic Issues in Architecture (1978) p.153
Of Small Steps and Great Effects (1978) p.161
Design Is Invisible (1980) p.171
What Is Livability? On Quantifiable and Invisible Needs (1981) p.182
The So-Called Urban Planning of the 1960s (1989) p.191
Valuable Rubbish, the Limits of Care, and Destruction
through Care (1991) p.201
The City in the Year 2028 (1998) p.213
MANKIND p.219
Does Modern Architecture Make Us Unfree? (1961) p.221
On Housing Needs (1970) p.236
What Does the Citizen Expect of Urban Design? (1972) p.244
Family and Home: Two Adaptable Systems (1975) p.254
Public Taste, or: On the Shift in Aesthetic Evaluation (1977) p.265
An Imaginary Visit (1977) p 274
Learning from Squatters (1977) p.276
DIY and the Construction Industry (1980) p.278
No-Man's-Land (1980) p.291
The Architect's Concept of Mankind (1980) p.293
We Must Reclaim Public Space (1982) p.305
Landscape and Motorcars (1988) p.314
Unintentional and Innocent-How Does Gemütlichkeit
Come About? (2001) p.321

Bibliography p.327
Biography p.333
Index p.335


DELIRIOUS CITY
CONTENTS
Preface p.7

l Delirious City p.8
ll People, People, People p.16
lll Consumptive Life p.24
IV Us and Them p.36
V By Invitation Only p.50



VI Ghetto p.74
VII Copy and Don't Ask p.94
VIlI Event Management p.130
IX Cosmopolitan Fiction p.142
X Parasitic Lives p.168
XI Nothing Goes Nowhere p.184
XII Conserving Builders p.216
XIII A Welcoming Brothel p.238
XIV Hopeless Optimism p.256
XV Future Fictions p.276

List of Illustrations p.307
Acknowledgements p.310
Index