How Long are New Towns New? European Post-War New Towns as Authentic Places in Comparative Perspective

Veranstalter: Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung. Die Veranstaltung wird unterstützt vom Leibniz-Forschungsverbund "Historische Authentizität"

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Programm

Thursday, February 23, 2017

14:30 – 14:40 | Greetings
Martin Sabrow

14:40 – 15:00 | Introduction
Ana Kladnik and Andreas Ludwig

15:00 – 17:00 | Panel 1: Historical Recognition of New Towns in Post-War Europe
Discussant: Christoph Bernhardt (Erkner)
Rosemary Wakeman (New York): Ideal Cities and the Origins of the New Town Movement
Loic Vadelorge (Paris): Building and Conserving the French New Towns: From the Uses of Past to the Management of Heritages (1970-2010)
Eszter Gantner (Marburg): Heritagezation of New Towns after 1989 in East Central Europe

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 – 19:00 | Panel 2: Mass Housing as Erinnerungsort
Discussant: Thomas Lindenberger (Potsdam)
Miles Glendinning (Edinburgh): European Mass Housing in its Global Context
Florian Urban (Glasgow): ‘The Slab’ in East Germany - an Ambivalent Heritage

19:30 Dinner

Friday, Februar 24, 2017

09:00 – 11:00 | Panel 3: New Towns as Cultural/National/World Heritage
Discussant: Thomas Schaarschmidt (Potsdam)
Marina Epstein-Pliouchtch (Haifa): "White City" Myth of Tel-Aviv, Canonization of the Modernist Heritage
Shane Downer (Milton Keynes): From New Town to International City – Culture Led Development in the Growth of Milton Keynes
Kaja Širok (Ljubljana): Rise and Shine: The Construction of the City of Nova Gorica and its Present-Day Social Legacy

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 | Panel 4: Public Representation of European Post-War New Towns
Discussant: Albrecht Wiesener
Michał Wiśniewski and Helena Postawka-Lech (Krakow): The Architecture of Nowa Huta
Michelle Provoost: Coming of Age: reinventing New Towns in the Rotterdam and Amsterdam region

13:00 Lunch

14:30 – 16:00 | Round Table /Final Discussion: Characteristics of European Post-War New Towns as Places of Historical Authenticity
Moderators: Ana Kladnik and Andreas Ludwig