Planning Europe's Capital Cities

<p>During the nineteenth century many of Europe's capital cities were subject to major expansion and improvement schemes - from Vienna's Ringstrasse to the boulevards of Paris.<br>Thomas Hall examines the planning process in fifteen of those cities and addresses the following questions: when and why did planning begin, and what problems was it meant to solve? Who developed the projects, and how, and who made the decisions? What urban ideas are expressed in the projects? What were the legal consequences of the plans, and how did they actually affect subsequent urban development in the individual cities? What similarities or differences can be identified between the various schemes? How have such schemes affected the development of urban planning in general?</p> <p>Preface 1. Introduction 2. From Hippodamus to Haussmann: Town Planning in a Historical Perspective <strong>Part 1: The Cities</strong> 3. Paris 4. London 5. Helsinki 6. Athens 7. Christiania 8. Barcelona 9. Madrid 10. Copenhagen 11. Vienna 12. Berlin 13. Stockholm 14. Brussels 15. Amsterdam 16. Budapest 17. Rome <strong>Part 2: Capital City Planning</strong> 18. The Background and Motivation for the Plans 19. The Authors of the Plans 20. The Decision Process 21. Content and Purpose of the Plans 22. Elements of the Plans 23. Attitudes to Cityscape 24. Implementation and Results 25. The Role of the Capital City Projects in Planning History</p>