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The course of postwar urban development in Europe, covering a period of unparalleled urbanisation during which cities have expanded territorially and transformed internally, has attracted considerable analysis. For the historian the period is simply one stage in a sequence of many, in almost a millenium of urban development;1 for the social geographer it is a period when increasing public interventionism has shaped city environments.2 Cities of particular cultural style have formed the subject of enquiry: in Mediterranean lands3 or with regard to the socialist city.4 Cities characterised simply by their bigness or complexity have been described: in world comparisons5 or as separate case studies in which their present postwar characteristics are seen as part of a lengthier historical canvas: Paris6 or British regional cities,7 for example.
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CHERRY, G.E. (1990). Reconstruction: its Place in Planning History. In: Diefendorf, J.M. (eds) Rebuilding Europe’s Bombed Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10458-1_14
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