Red Urban Planning Education Bordering the Iron Curtain, 1960-1990

• In Event: Red Cities: Urban Planning in Eastern Europe, 1960-1990

Abstract

After a long decade of post-war reconstruction, by the 1960s communist nations’ command economies created critical roles for large-scale, centralized and politicized urban planning. Yet by the 1970s student projects and faculty collaborations with state entities in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Yugoslavia demonstrated both Western and local influences, including in rural, and historic settings. This paper provides an overview of planning education in these four nations, its opportunities, and constraints, with greater focus on East Germany, Hungary and Slovakia.

Authors

• Igor Marjanovic, Rice U

• Katerina Ruedi Ray, Bowling Green State U