Publication details
Od Ringstrasse ve Vídni k risanamenti ve Florencii
| Title in English | From Ringstrasse in Vienna to Risanamenti in Firenze |
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
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| Description | In the middle of the 19th century, in most large European cities, it was decided to modernize the urban space, a fundamental urban transformation of the still medieval historical city centers, typically surrounded by old walls. One of the classic modernizations at that time was the Vienna Ringstrasse, the construction of which was called for by Emperor Francis Joseph I on 20/12/1857. The following year, an extensive competition for the project took place and on 1/5/1865 the Ringstrasse was ceremonially opened as (in the words of Hans Sedlmayr) a "circular forum" between the historic center and the new suburbs. At the same time, in 1865, Florence became the capital of Italy for six years, and in this context the urbanist architect Giuseppe Poggi created a system of boulevards with external urban centers around the city walls. In the lecture, we will finally compare the various meanings of this modernization effort with partial urban projects in Rome or Brno, in which the Rhine architect Joseph Stübben participated; the latter eventually attempted to create one of the last pre-modernist theories of urban planning. |