The Cities of Avignon and Worms as Expressions of the European Community

Bibliographic Data

ID7730864
AuthorsBeverly Heckart (Central Washington University, corresponding author)
Year1989
Volume31
Issue3
Pages462-490
Publication date1989-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417500016005
OpenAlexW2088581089
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

At the end of 1978, the German art critic Walter Frentz, introducing a film and public lecture in the city of Worms, postulated that Europeans could breathe new life into the idea of European unity by devoting greater care and attention to the shape and form of European cities. The theme of his remarks that night specifically encouraged the preservation of historic urban cores, but more striking was his general concept linking the development of the European Community with the treatment of the European city. As a growing literature on architectural symbolism and urban imagery suggests, cities take the shapes that are expressions of a total society, reflecting the spectrum of their political, economic and cultural life. As Europeans rebuilt and developed their cities in the period after World War II, they also charted the course of their unification

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Cold war · Economic history · Economics · Economy · German · Period (music) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theme (computing) · Unification · World War II · European history and politics · History · Law