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Fears and Hopes for European Urbanization

Ten Prospective Papers and Three Evaluations

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  1. Torsten Hägerstrand
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  2. Michel Hulten
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Biological Man in Future Urban Europe

    • T. Malmberg
    Pages 1-18

  3. Socio-Psychological Aspects

    • Walter Toman
    Pages 19-37

  4. A Semiotic Approach to Acculturation and Participation

    • Umberto Eco
    Pages 38-59

  5. Towards an Analysis of Planning in Late Capitalism

    • Jörn Barnbrock, Hartmut Frank, Wolf Grosse, Hans-Henning Joeres, Manfred Hamann, Peter Stirnemann
    Pages 60-101

  6. Thinking of the Future

    • Ed. J. Mishan
    Pages 102-125

  7. Centralization, Decentralization, Participation

    • L. J. Sharpe
    Pages 126-150

  8. Supranational Institutions

    • S. L. Mansholt
    Pages 151-161

  9. Morphology and Culture of European Cities

    • Giuseppe Sacco
    Pages 162-187

  10. The Consumption of Landscape in the City of the Future

    • Manuel Ribas i Piera
    Pages 188-204

  11. Urban Utopias — What Prevents Their Realization?

    • Lucius Burckhardt
    Pages 205-211

  12. Prospective — Useful?

    • M. Piquard
    Pages 212-215

  13. Contemporary Thinking about the Future of Urban Europe

    • V. Kokole
    Pages 216-239

  14. Similarities and Dissimilarities in Urban Prospective Thinking

    • M. van Hulten
    Pages 240-254

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 255-256
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Urbanization is a process taking place in our society, which is changing from a predominantly rural and agrarian society into a predominantly urban and industrial one. This is a transformation which is not just taking place in certain areas, it is not merely a concentration of houses and of people and of activities, but what is perhaps much more important: it is also a change in the way of life. Although there are regional differences, which exist within every nation and between the nations of Europe, the process is a general one, it is omnipresent. Whether the country is rich or poor, it still spends between 15% and 25% of all invested capital on the formation of physical assets (housing, for example). It uses another 15% to 20% on various urban services (roads, utilities). Including domestic power, this means that everywhere about half of the investment resources available are spent on the process of urbanization. Much more significant than this financial way of indicating the im­ portance of urban society and of the urbanization process, but much less clearly expressed in figures, is the fact that it is in the cities that the great evolutions are taking place from the society of the present towards the society of the future. The big cities and conurbations are the breeding­ grounds of technological innovation, of new forms of organization, of the creation of new activities, of new social relations and of new forms of culture.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Fears and Hopes for European Urbanization

  • Book Subtitle: Ten Prospective Papers and Three Evaluations

  • Authors: Torsten Hägerstrand, Michel Hulten

  • Series Title: Plan Europe 2000, Project 3: Urbanization; Planning Human Environment in Europe

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2768-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1972

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1211-3Published: 31 July 1972

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-2768-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 274

  • Topics: Regional/Spatial Science

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