Detailseite
Projekt Druckansicht

Globalgeschichte der urbanen Entwicklungspolitik nach 1945

Antragsteller Professor Dr. Marc Frey
Fachliche Zuordnung Neuere und Neueste Geschichte (einschl. Europäische Geschichte der Neuzeit und Außereuropäische Geschichte)
Förderung Förderung von 2014 bis 2019
Projektkennung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 252987858
 
Erstellungsjahr 2019

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

The principal aim of the project was to investigate why and how the urban space became an important field of development policies after 1945. Two research trajectories were identified and analysed: public policy and social affairs in connection with planning and construction, and the environmental dimension of the urban space. Partial project I reveals the important role the UN system played in regard to the dissemination of knowledge and the practical assistance provided to member countries in the Global South during the decades of decolonization. Partial project II shows that environmental concerns entered the discourse of development earlier than is usually thought. However, the environment was predominantly seen as a resource factor rather than as an object of conservation. The discourse on environment of the 1950s and 1960s can thus be seen as an extension of earlier debates focusing on resource management. Still, it is remarkable that local actors in Mexico City and Sao Paolo were able to activate national and international partners. A continuing challenge for historical projects in the field of global history is accessibility of local archives. While archives in Latin America provided rich material, manageable access to archives of a larger number of cities in the Global South – as investigated in partial project I – proved, for a variety of reasons, difficult. Cooperative project may counter this deficit in the future. The project team believes that its research redirects the focus on the Euro-Atlantic region with regard to the urban space. Its results speak to a number of sub-disciplines, such as environmental history, urban history, science and technology studies, late colonialism and decolonization, and regional history (Latin America, Africa, Asia).

Projektbezogene Publikationen (Auswahl)

 
 

Zusatzinformationen

Textvergrößerung und Kontrastanpassung