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Introduction
Paul Stangl's primary research interests have centered on cultural history in Berlin, Germany and San Francisco, California, as well as pedestrian planning and measures of street connectivity. Dr. Stangl's book, "Risen From Ruins: The Cultural Politics of Rebuilding East Berlin," was published in April 2018 by Stanford University Press. For more information on Dr. Stangl's research and teaching, links to his personal website are published under Info.
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Recent scholarship has examined the representation of cars, walking and rail transportation in cinema; however, it has said little about the bus. This paper examines the depiction of the bus in a series of movies filmed in San Francisco since the 1970s. While rail-based modes, especially the cable car, were depicted in a positive light in these fil...
National borders have become a matter of great debate in recent years due to military conflicts, refugee crises, trade wars, and a global pandemic. Highly polarized discussions of their physical configuration and regulation can only intensify in coming years. Inevitably, arguments about borders overtly or implicitly invoke national identities, huma...
Historians generally attribute the title of first municipal proto-zoning ordinance in the United States to a restriction on the locations of Chinese Laundries from Modesto, California, in 1885. Yet, a similar location restriction on slaughterhouses was approved in San Francisco in 1852 and revised in ensuing decades through political contestation a...
Throughout American history, cultural norms regarding the behaviour of men and women in public space have extended to their use of transportation, including the automobile. A series of crime films set in San Francisco spanning seven decades are examined in relation to these norms and how this has changed over decades. While Lefebvre observes a pote...
This book examines city building in East Berlin from the end of World War II on May 8, 1945, until the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961—a period of great interest in reshaping the city to express new political ideals. It examines how key decision-makers were influenced by their worldview and political ideology; beliefs about the r...
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Recent attempts to develop resiliency indices for metropolitan areas have relied on coarse aggregate data that has little value in assessing the impacts of hazards on urban life. An examination of literature on three hazards (heat waves, flooding, and fires) reveals that it is essential to consider impacts, and how to mitigate and re-mediate them a...
Increased levels of walking have been associated with a range of individual and societal benefits, including reductions in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, and improved public health. Recent scholarship has sought to provide evidence that good street connectivity encourages walking, and though some correlation is evident, the statistical si...
In mid-nineteenth-century San Francisco, octopuses were abruptly reinvented as “devil-fish,” diabolical sea creatures menacing humans who entered their realm. Simultaneously, metaphorical octopuses began appearing in the press, demonizing a range of phenomena. This paper examines the construction, life and decline of the “evil” octopus myth; the in...
Researchers are probing motivational factors influencing individuals’ choice to walk. A review of the literature reveals a great deal of variability in the motivators considered. This study identified 15 motivators commonly associated with walkability for use in a pedestrian-intercept survey to measure their influence on pedestrian mode choice to w...
Increased awareness of the benefits of a well-connected street network among planning professionals has encouraged the rapid proliferation of ‘connectivity ordinances’ establishing minimum standards for new developments, often measured in terms of block size. This article identifies some fundamental flaws in commonly used block-size measures, based...
The majority of short distance travel in North America is completed by single occupancy vehicles. Substituting walking and bicycling for these trips would reduce energy use and environmental pollution, while improving quality of life. Therefore, understanding influences on non-automotive travel behavior is crucial. Researchers and planners have tou...
Many popular approaches to assessing the connectivity of automobile and pedestrian route networks have been shown to have limited efficacy. This article identifies deficiencies in a recently developed model for applying pedestrian route directness and proposes a revised model as an effective measure of connectivity that includes a level-of-service...
Neighborhood design, in particular street connectivity, has come to be understood as an important component of urban sustainability. Academics have presented a range of measures for assessing connectivity, some of which have been employed by North American governments in their development review process. However, these measures are subject to numer...
This paper examines the relationship between research and practice in pedestrian planning, focusing on the pedestrian plan in the United States. A preliminary review of plans and research was used to identify 17 aspects of pedestrian planning. These were ranked in importance through a survey of pedestrian planners at the local and metropolitan leve...
Recent geographical literature has given extensive consideration to monumental landscapes and collective memory. Vernacular
landscapes have been given limited attention, though they too bear testimony to collective memory. The vernacular and monumental
are intertwined in urban space, and ambiguity and fluidity mark their border, yet their distincti...
Following the passage of ISTEA, increased attention to pedestrian planning has led to the development of pedestrian plans,
particularly at the metropolitan and municipal levels. This has raised the issue of how cities and metropolitan areas evaluate
the walkability of the pedestrian realm and identify improvement projects. Three approaches to evalu...
In Germany, the Revolutions of 1848 and 1918/19 resulted in the martyrdom of opposition leaders and constituents, whose burial sites in Berlin became key sites of memory and commemoration for the working-class movement. Political turbulence and regime change throughout the twentieth century has resulted in contestation over the meaning and use of t...
Berlin's Unter den Linden, a primary thoroughfare and ensemble of historic architecture and nationally significant cultural institutions, lay in ruins at the close of the Second World War. The buildings, public spaces, and public art forming this street bore testimony to diverse facets of German history, presenting a range of semantic issues to tho...
The Soviet War Memorial in Treptow, Berlin, was an important emblem of political power and ideology during and after the cold war. Designed as the Soviet Union's premiere extraterritorial battlefield shrine, the site combines a veterans' cemetery with a large-scale memorial complex celebrating the Soviet victory in World War II. The monument was in...
