Hitler's ‘Generalsiedlungsplanung Ost’: a case only for Poland? A forgotten dimension of national-socialist spatial and town planning in the former Czechoslovakia
| Autor: | Richard Němec |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Government
Institutionalisation media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 021107 urban & regional planning Nazism 06 humanities and the arts 02 engineering and technology Public administration language.human_language 060104 history German Politics Urban planning Law language 0601 history and archaeology Ideology Sociology Spatial planning media_common |
| Zdroj: | Planning Perspectives. 31:1-29 |
| ISSN: | 1466-4518 0266-5433 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02665433.2015.1059291 |
| Popis: | Adolf Hitler constructed his Nazi ideology as a universal worldview aimed at the German Reich's eastward expansion; the ‘Generalsiedlungsplanung Ost’ programme was officially launched in 1940. The forcible establishment of multiple administrative units in 1938/1939 created the conditions for an architecture that would serve the totalitarian regime. Thus began an enormous planning process and the targeted institutionalization of urban development and spatial planning and research. This programme included not only German government agencies and research institutions specifically established or reorganized for this purpose, but increasingly also involved communal politics and independent or government architects. The author pursues the thesis that this Germanization concept, formulated within the framework of the ‘Generalsiedlungsplane Ost’, allowed the relevant agencies to increase their influence or eliminate any opponents. From this basis, the study identifies the role that GBI (Generalbauinspektor) for B... |
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