The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries

The post-race city and non-racial urban imaginaries

What do imaginaries of radical urban change involve when they are based on a shared commitment to an anti-oppressive and non-hierarchical world? How can urban imaginaries reach, politicise, and radicalise people? In this presentation, I discuss these questions in relation to an examination of three dimensions of Nazi urban planning and design: monumental approaches to re-planning the Reichshauptstadt Berlin and Gauhauptstädte; neighbourhood ‘recovery’, i.e. the systematic destruction of deprived neighbourhoods with large Jewish populations; and imaginaries of the 'new city', i.e. the city after all Jews have been deported or killed.

Date

23–27 March 2023

Language

English

Location

Denver, Colorado

Event

American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2023

Author

Günter Gassner

Keywords

Spatial imaginaries

Racism

Fascism

Spatial practices

Aesthetics