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Wed 11 April
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Thu 12 April
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Fri 13 April
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Sat 14 April
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Wednesday 11 April 2012 11.00 - 13.00
L-2 URB07 Urban Amenities
Main Building: Room 355
Networks: Technology , Urban Chair: Harm Kaal
Organizers: - Discussants: -
Lena Eriksson : The Lost and Preserved City. Stockholm 1919-1994
The lost and preserved city. The Influence of the "Beauty council" on the city of Stockholm 1919-2004
Lena Eriksson

The Beauty Council of Stockholm is as old as the Swedish democracy. Since 1919, the Council has represented the interests of the inhabitants of Stockholm in matters relating to the city's natural ... (Show more)
The lost and preserved city. The Influence of the "Beauty council" on the city of Stockholm 1919-2004
Lena Eriksson

The Beauty Council of Stockholm is as old as the Swedish democracy. Since 1919, the Council has represented the interests of the inhabitants of Stockholm in matters relating to the city's natural surroundings, aesthetic values and cultural monuments. During the Council's many years of activity, the Swedish society and Stockholm have undergone major changes and thus has the potential for the Councils action changed form. The Beauty Council's work over nearly a century ought to have taken different routs and should have had an impact on the cityscape, but we do not know how or to what extent the Council has served the city and its inhabitants for its history has not been written, and its activity has not been scientifically analyzed. The project aims to, through its archive, explore the Beauty Council's role, activities and significance in the city of Stockholm during the years 1919-2004.
The project will focus on historical change within four target areas that ought to have facilitated or obstructed the work of the council: The structural conditions, like population growth and economic conditions. The internal conditions, like the member’s composition and member’s preferences. The external conditions, like the political and economic arena and the main figures in this arena. And finally, the council’s power/influence and democratic mandate. How have these factors affected the actions of the Beauty Council and the way in which the Council has acted in order to affect the city?
I would like to present my brand new research project and some preliminary results. (Show less)

Giuseppe Restifo, Carmelina Gugliuzzo : The Opening of the Harbour, the Closing of the Walls: Urban History of two Mediterranean Port Cities
The convenience of a natural harbour, the needs of the maritime trade, the proximity of the sea and its resources had led the people of Malta and Messina – at different times – to construct two coastal cities, two port cities. But, as like all the Mediterranean port cities, the ... (Show more)
The convenience of a natural harbour, the needs of the maritime trade, the proximity of the sea and its resources had led the people of Malta and Messina – at different times – to construct two coastal cities, two port cities. But, as like all the Mediterranean port cities, the design solutions are always ambiguous, always strained in the contradiction between opening and closing. Starting from the year Thousand and, a fortiori, after the military revolution in the sixteenth century, the cities shut themselves to preserve their wealth and their social construction. The security of their freedom, their collective organization and the domain of the surrounding area pass through fortifications and walls. These are the defense against treacherous and dangerous strangers. But in the port cities urban life is animated by the port and this must necessarily be open to foreigners, thus making the city somewhat vulnerable.
Valletta and Messina live this contradiction: it is interesting to analyze the assumptions and design solutions in these two Mediterranean port cities in order to respond to their ambiguous identity. In particular, a port building, that of maritime health, the lazaretto, incorporates this ambiguous condition: it welcomes foreign vessels - potential carriers of epidemic attacks from outside, even more dangerous than the military ones - and at the same time it monitors, observes, confines, and then defends the city. (Show less)

Mikkel Thelle : Resisting Urban Modernity: The Copenhagen Tramways as Assembly
New Year’s Eve 1900, an odd riot started at the Copenhagen Town Hall Square. It should end with more than 600 people reported to the police and much damage done to the public network installations: light posts, shop windows, fire alarm systems and most significantly to the trams that passed ... (Show more)
New Year’s Eve 1900, an odd riot started at the Copenhagen Town Hall Square. It should end with more than 600 people reported to the police and much damage done to the public network installations: light posts, shop windows, fire alarm systems and most significantly to the trams that passed the square that night. No humans were harmed, and only a few was incarcerated.
The paper will analyze the event as an example of resistance towards the urban mass transit in Copenhagen as a modern assembly that over a short period had become ubiquitous in the urban space, in the context of a rapid modernizing process with a core in the exact spot where the conflict took place, the Town Hall Square. Furthermore, the paper wil discuss how this process of urban modernization could be interpreted in the light of the presented case.
It is evident that the city’s new, electric tramways was or became the prime target of the violence. And by unraveling the case it seems the incident was not unique. It had happened before and would happen again, little by little becoming interwoven in debates and politics on local and national level.
In the second half of the 19th century, networked technologies spread in and across western cities with accelerating and almost explosive speed. Through a dominant presence on different levels, these technologies renegotiated the character of urban public space and played a very dominant role in the everyday life of Copenhagen citizens around 1900. (Show less)



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