{"id":6417,"date":"2025-02-28T07:32:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T06:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=events&p=6417"},"modified":"2025-02-28T07:39:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T06:39:13","slug":"navigating-through-hamburg-and-marseilles-green-and-blue-spaces","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/events\/navigating-through-hamburg-and-marseilles-green-and-blue-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating through Hamburg and Marseille\u2019s Green and Blue Spaces: Urban planning in service of a Post-World War II imagined identity (1945-1973)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Research Seminar with doctoral researcher Eliane Schmid<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public urban green spaces are a key element of the \u201clivable\u201d city. They serve as social and recreational spaces, are free of charge, and generally met with positive sentiments. Yet, public urban green spaces are far from banal or neutral. They are products of policies and societal ideals that reach back to the post-World War II era.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Research Seminar talk is devoted to the topic of public urban green space creation as a tool for identity narration in the port cities of Hamburg and Marseille. Joined by a city partnership from 1958 onwards, Hamburg and Marseille\u2019s municipal governments stood in close collaboration concerning urban development projects, including park construction. Carefully planned green spaces were developed to serve as an antidote to the negative port city stereotypes of being polluted and dangerous. As their respective countries\u2019 second cities and largest ports, the municipal governments of Hamburg and Marseille supported one another in trying to prove that port cities were valuable beyond their importance for the national economy. What this looked like exactly, who was involved and who was left out, will be discussed in this presentation.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n