Disorderly Cities
Richard J. Evans: WW2 Town Planning, 5 December 2013
A Blessing in Disguise: War and Town Planning in Europe, 1940-45
edited by Jörn Düwel and Niels Gutschow.
DOM, 415 pp., €98, August 2013,978 3 86922 295 0 Show More
edited by Jörn Düwel and Niels Gutschow.
DOM, 415 pp., €98, August 2013,
“... town planners saw their chance. ‘The city of the last century,’ the German architect Konstanty Gutschow said on 2 February 1944, ‘spread out in a never-ending, uninterrupted sea of houses, the object of our impotent rage as urban planners, has now been overtaken by its dreadful fate.’ The Pole Jan Chmielewski, looking at the ruins of Warsaw after his ... ”
