From the 1950s, Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) focused on planning, design, and construction in a democracy. His astute observations and critical analysis have had a fundamental effect on the design of our environment, on teaching in the architectural/planning professions, and on our understanding of what "city" means. His research, which - between mighty commercial interests and conflicting political aspirations focuses on the benefit for the entire population - is indispensable when and wherever buildings are planned, designed, built, and inhabited. With a new selection of texts, this book ploughs a furrow through Lucius Burckhardt's theory of planning.

• Content
• From Critical Urban Studies to the Science of Walking
• Politics—Environment—Mankind
• POLITICS
• Urban Planning and Democracy (1957)
• Construction: A Process with No Obligations to Historic Preservation (1967)
• Political Decisions in Construction Planning (1970)
• The Drawbacks of Leitbilder [Models] for Decision-Making (1971)
• Who Plans the Planning? (1974)
• Communication and the Built Environment (1978)
• Between Patchwork and the Master Plan (1982) The Future Which Failed To Arrive (1982)
• The Future Which Failed To Arrive (1982)
• Architecture: An Art or A Science? (1983)
• The End of Polytechnic Solvability (1989)
• ENVIRONMENT
• The Urban Crisis (1961)
• The Revolution Did Not Happen (1964)
• On the Value and Meaning of Urban Utopias (1968)
• Signs of the Times (1973)
• Aesthetic Issues in Architecture (1978)
• Of Small Steps and Great Effects (1978)
• Design Is Invisible (1980)
• What Is Livability? On Quantifiable and Invisible Needs (1981)
• The So-Called Urban Planning of the 1960s (1989)
• Valuable Rubbish, the Limits of Care, and Destruction through Care (1991)
• The City in the Year 2028 (1998)
• MANKIND
• Does Modern Architecture Make Us Unfree? (1961)
• On Housing Needs (1970)
• What Does the Citizen Expect of Urban Design? (1972)
• Family and Home: Two Adaptable Systems (1975)
• Public Taste, or: On the Shift in Aesthetic Evaluation (1977)
• An Imaginary Visit (1977)
• Learning from Squatters (1977)
• DIY and the Construction Industry (1980)
• No-Man’s-Land (1980)
• The Architect’s Concept of Mankind (1980)
• We Must Reclaim Public Space (1982)
• Landscape and Motorcars (1988)
• Bibliography
• Biography
• Index