Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Public Evening Lecture – Innoz, Berlin-Schöneberg
20.00 – 22.00
Welcome address
Christoph Bernhardt (Erkner)/Simon Gunn (Leicester)
Public Lecture with discussion
Andreas Knie (Berlin)
Automobility in transition – long-term trends and current challenges
Thursday, 17 September 2015
Leibniz Association, Berlin Headquarter
09.00 – 09.30
Registration of participants
09.30 – 10.00
Welcome and Introduction
Christoph Bernhardt (Erkner)/Simon Gunn (Leicester)
10.00 – 11.00
Keynote-Lecture and discussion
Brian Ladd (Albany)
The Americanization of European Traffic Planning? The transfer and reception of American expertise
11.00 – 11.15
Coffee break
11.15 – 12.45
Section I: Automobility between town planning and planning for transport
Christopher Kopper (Bielefeld)
Why did the „Los Angelization“ of German cities not happen?
The evolution of city and traffic planning in West Germany during the 1950s and 1960s
Per Lundin (Göteborg)
The role of traffic safety guidelines in city planning: SCAFT68 and the making of the car-friendly city in post-war Sweden
Comment: Simon Gunn
12.45 – 14.00
Lunch break
14.00 – 15.30
Section II: Planning mobility for cities
Mathieu Flonneau (Paris)
Planning for mobility in times of americanisation of the transport system – the case of Paris (tbc)
Richard Harrison (Leicester)
Town planners, traffic and the urban environment in 1960s Britain: the cases of Leicester and Milton Keynes
Comment: N.N.
15.30 – 17.00
Section III: Automobility between risk and security
Achim Saupe (Potsdam)
Security, Freedom and Autonomy in the Discourse of Automobile and Road Traffic Safety (United States and West Germany 1960-1990)
Gordon Pirie (Cape Town)
Roads and risk: engineering public assets in history
Comment
Christoph Bernhardt
17.00 – 17.15
Coffee break
17.15 – 18.45
Section IV: New forms of mobility
Liudger Dienel (Berlin)
Shared Taxis and new community transport systems in Germany in the 20th and 21st Century
Annika Levels (Erkner)
The politicization of urban cycling. Rethinking streets in 21st century New York and Berlin
Comment: N.N.
19.00
Conference dinner
Friday, 18 September 2015
09.30 – 11.45
Section V: Car cities between boom and crisis
Harald Engler (Erkner)
Autostädte in Ost und West im späten 20. Jahrhundert
Susan C. Townsend (Nottingham)
Nagoya. The Making of Japan’s Motor City
Mariusz Jastrzb (Warschau)
The Festival of Socialist Consumerism. 25th Anniversary of the Passenger Cars‘ Factory (FSO) in 1976
Comment
Clemens Zimmermann (Saarbrücken)
11.45 – 12.00
Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30
Section VI
Town planning and mobility under socialism
György Péteri (Trondheim)
„Don‘t Waste the Gas!“: social issues of mass automobilism in communist Hungary in the 1960ies
Elke Beyer (Erkner)
Freie Fahrt in die sozialistische Stadt. Automobilität und Städtebau in der UdSSR und der DDR in den 1960er Jahren
Comment: N.N.
13.30 – 14.15
Lunch break
14.15 – 16.00
Round Table with contemporary witnesses:
Milestones of car oriented town planning in East and West Germany
Reinhard Giehler (Berlin)
Friedemann Kunst (Berlin)
Hermann H. Saitz (Erfurt)
Axel Priebs (Hannover)
Moderation: Harald Engler (Erkner)
16.00 – 17.00
Science Lab
Concluding debate and discussion on next steps (edited volume, web platform etc.)