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Planning postwar Vienna*
One‐fourth of Vienna's buildings suffered damage during World War II, and postwar officials, planners, and architects initially viewed reconstruction as an opportunity to introduce major reforms, such as functional zoning, density reduction and new traffic patterns. During the first two postwar decades, Vienna's planning was led by Franz Schuster, Karl Heinrich Brunner and Roland Rainer, all of whom pursued cautious, pragmatic and rather technical approaches to planning, and all of whom focused more on functional rather than aesthetic issues. Their work failed to arouse much enthusiasm. Whereas the city had been a pioneer in planning and architecture at the turn of the century, after 1945 it settled for being a pleasant, functional metropolis characterized by the structures of a departed age.
Planning postwar Vienna*
One‐fourth of Vienna's buildings suffered damage during World War II, and postwar officials, planners, and architects initially viewed reconstruction as an opportunity to introduce major reforms, such as functional zoning, density reduction and new traffic patterns. During the first two postwar decades, Vienna's planning was led by Franz Schuster, Karl Heinrich Brunner and Roland Rainer, all of whom pursued cautious, pragmatic and rather technical approaches to planning, and all of whom focused more on functional rather than aesthetic issues. Their work failed to arouse much enthusiasm. Whereas the city had been a pioneer in planning and architecture at the turn of the century, after 1945 it settled for being a pleasant, functional metropolis characterized by the structures of a departed age.
Planning postwar Vienna*
Diefendorf, Jeffry M. (author)
Planning Perspectives ; 8 ; 1-19
1993-01-01
19 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
| Wiley | 1944
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1944
Planning for Postwar Construction
| Wiley | 1944
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1945
Engineering Index Backfile | 1943