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On Streets. Streets as an Element of Urban Fabric
(Lodz University of Technology Press, 2023) Psenner Angelika; Tobisch Susanne
Scientists and practitioners alike use the term public space when referring to squares, plazas, markets or parks; less often it is used in connection with streets, although streets and roads occupy the biggest share of un-built urban space. It is not only the sheer amount that makes streets the most important sphere for an urban society, but streets also represent a continuous and all-accessible spatial construct, a network that spans the entire city. Our paper provides an in-depth review of selected historical literature that focuses on streets as public space in densely built-up areas; with the aim of developing an understanding of the on-time academic discussion around the requirements and nature of these streets. This should help us to recognise the genesis of our existing urban structures and in particular of the secondary streets. In the second part, following the previously elaborated findings, we strive to identify existing and potential qualities of those street spaces; whereby it is important for us to leave the usual intra-disciplinary connotations and to read street as an inherent part of the systemic urban parterre. By examining cross-cutting issues that are mostly underrepresented in discipline-specific discourse, the ultimate goal is to achieve a better understanding of one of the most fundamental determinants of a city's quality of life: the actual spatial and functional quality of secondary streets.
Siegfried Sitte: Forgotten Urban Designs
(Lodz University of Technology Press, 2023) Kubin Stefan Johannes; Psenner Angelika
The Austrian architect and urban planner Siegfried Sitte (1876–1945) is the last representative of a family of architects spanning three generations, after Franz and Camillo Sitte. However, his extensive oeuvre, unlike that of his predecessors, is largely forgotten today. After sudden death of his father, great expectations were placed in Siegfried Sitte as successor of the well-known urban planning theorist Camillo Sitte. And Siegfried’s career began promisingly with contributions to international urban planning competitions. These designs, which were created up until the outbreak of World War I, represent Siegfried Sitte's early creative period. In fact, however, only a few of these projects were realised. For the first time, Siegfried Sitte’s largely unknown urban planning projects, which can be found in the estate of the Sitte family of architects, are made accessible to experts and analysed in detail. What are the qualities of Siegfried Sitte's urban designs? To what extent can the influence of Camillo Sitte's urban planning theories be detected in his son's work? Based on these central questions, it will be discussed whether Siegfried Sitte's urban planning has perhaps been unjustly neglected.