Reinventing the City: Zürich 1965-1985
ACUH seminar with Nadine Zberg
In her talk, Nadine Zberg (Zürich) will conceive the post-war urban crisis as a moment of epistemological destabilization that led to the questioning of the established authorities and systems of knowledge about the city and, in parallel, to a variety of new groups and individuals beginning to participate in discourses about how the city was supposed to be, what its problems were, and how they could be solved.
Event details of
Reinventing the City: Zürich 1965-1985
- Date
- 17 November 2022
- Time
- 15:30 -16:30
From the urban crisis of the 1960s to the renaissance of cities in the 1990s – the re-orientation in urban planning and development that took place mainly over the course of the 1970s has been called no less than a paradigm shift. Focusing on the city of Zurich, Zberg analyses the conflicting visions of the city propagated by protesting tenants, worried mothers, politicized students and other subcultures of the New Left, socially engaged architects, heritage protectors, the emerging ecologists, the city’s planning officials, and the city government. In doing so, she traces the shaping of a new notion of ‘singular’ urbanity (Andreas Reckwitz) as the key ingredient to the following urban renaissance.