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Old Town: The Making of Historic Cityscapes in International Contexts

The Old Town as a "product". Photo: Gerhard Vinken 2015.

The European city is a success story once again. Globally, urban districts with a historic character are being created. Apart from renovating and restoring, the focus is increasingly on building new historic ensembles – differentiating between historic city centers and their replicas and surrogates seems to have become irrelevant. Which sources feed this movement? Which traditions of urban planning are its godparent? Particularly, the position of the heritage studies must be reevaluated since they have been partaking in the creation of these “new” and “made” historic districts in a highly ambivalent way beginning with the movement for homeland protection [Heimatschutzbewegung] to the period of reconstruction after WWII up to postmodernism and current reconstruction projects. The project aims at grasping the heterogenous phenomenon of the “made” historic cities in more detail. 

    Publications from the KDWT

    Books:

    • Enss, Carmen M. / Vinken, Gerhard (eds.): Produkt Altstadt. Historische Stadtzentren in Städtebau und Denkmalpflege, Bielefeld 2016.
    • Enss, Carmen M.: Münchens geplante Altstadt. Städtebau und Denkmalpflege ab 1944 für den Wiederaufbau, Munich 2016.

    Articles:

    • Vinken, Gerhard: Vorbild Amerika? ›Historic Districts‹ und städtebauliche Denkmalpflege in den USA, in: Forum Stadt 44/3 (2017), p. 251-270.
    • Vinken, Gerhard: Escaping Modernity? Civic Protest, the Preservation Movement and the Reinvention of the Old Town in Germany since the 1960s, in: Baumeister, Martin / Bonomo, Bruno / Schott, Dieter (ed.): Cities Contested. Urban Politics, Heritage, and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s, Frankfurt a. M. / New York 2017, p. 169-191.
    • Vinken, Gerhard: Im Namen der Altstadt. Stadtplanung zwischen Modernisierung und Identitätspolitik. Einführung in eine wechselhafte Geschichte, in: Enss, Carmen M. / Vinken, Gerhard (eds.): Produkt Altstadt. Historische Stadtzentren in Städtebau und Denkmalpflege, Bielefeld 2016, p. 9-26.
    • Enss, Carmen M.: Der Weg des Städtebauers Theodor Fischer von den Münchner Altstadt-Experimenten zur Kritik homogenisierender Altstadt-Produktion, in: Enss, Carmen M. / Vinken, Gerhard (eds.): Produkt Altstadt. Historische Stadtzentren in Städtebau und Denkmalpflege, Bielefeld 2016, p. 75–90.
    • Vinken, Gerhard: Neue Heimat or Constructing the Old Town. The Example of Cologne, 1930-1960, in: Studies in Urban Humanities 8/1 (April 2016), p. 67-95.