The banks of Frankfurt and the sustainable city

Journal of Architecture

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-24

  Moore, Steven A ^a   Brand, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 61049259523     PISSN: 13602365     EISSN: 14664410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1360236032000068505     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Scott Campbell, 'Green Cities, Growing Cities, Just Cities? Urban Planning and the Contradictions of Sustainable Development,' in APA Journal (Summer 1996), pp. 466-484
2. Benjamin R. Barber, Strong Democracy: Participatory Democracy for a New Age (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1984)
3. The relationship between Strong Democracy and the political content of sustainable development was first suggested to us by Thomas Prugh, Robert Costanza, and Herman Daly in The Local Politics of Global Sustainability (Washington, DC, Island Press, 2000)
4. Barber's objection to the myth of individual autonomy follows that of John Dewey who argued that humans are first and foremost social beings. See, Louis Menand, The Metaphysical Club (New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001), pp. 285-336
5. For example, see Dietmar Scherf, 'The Cathedrals of the capital scratch the sky' [Die Kathedralen des Kapitals kratzen am Himmel] in, Offenburger Tagblatt 18 April 1998. In general, all translations from the German are by the authors
6. Mathias Schreiber: Wildwest am Main. Der Spiegel, 38th week 1997 (15 September 1997): pp. 226-228 &230
7. See, K. Marx and F. Engels, 1952 edition. Manifest of the Communist Party (Moscow). Passage cited in David Harvey, Spaces of Hope (Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 2000), p. 25
8. Telephpne interview with Helmut Bosch, 19 April 2001
9. Claus-Jürgen Göpfert, Häuser am Kaiserplatz gerettet. Frankfurter Rundschau. 25 February 1991, pp. 7-8
10. Martin Wentz, Für neue Hochhäuser - Rücksicht auf die Stadtteile. Frankfurter Rundschau. 10 February 1987, p. 15
11. Press release by Uli Baier, member of the City Planning Council and City Councilor affiliated with the Green Party, in response to the newspaper article, 'Six New High-rises...' in Frankfurter Runschau, 20 April 1989
12. Telephone interview with Helmut Bosch, 19 April 2001 and Claus-Jürgen Göpfert, Häuser am Kaiserplatz gerettet. Frankfurter Rundschau. 25 February 1991, pp. 7-8
13. The concept of housing and shops 'had been brought about due to "special encouragement by the city", said Kohlhausen' (Claus-Jürgen Göpfert, 185 Meter Büros am Kaiserplatz. Frankfurter Rundschau. 28 June 1991, page unknown.)
14. Otto Frei, Ein ökologisches Hochhaus für Frankfurt -Wenn der Bauherr (nicht) will - Eine öffentliche Stellungnahme. Die ZEIT, no. 47 1991, 15 November 1991, p. 74
15. Heike Lattka, Drei neue Hochhäuser und ein freies Plätzchen. Frankfurter Neue Presse. 29 June 1991, p. 15
16. These aspects of the building are best described elsewhere. For example see, C. Davies and I. Lambot, Commerzbank Frankfurt (Basel, SW, Birkhäuser, 1997)
17. Relevant articles include: M. Pepchinski, 'Commerzbank,' in Architectural Record (January 1998): 69-80
18. and Peter Davey, 'High Expectations: Commerzbank,' in Architectural Review (July 1997): pp. 26-39
19. Andrew Feenberg, 'Subversive Rationalisation: Technology, Power, and Democracy,' in Technology and the Politics of Knowledge, Andrew Feenberg and Alastair Hannay, Eds., (Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1995), pp. 3-22
20. Typical examples of this phenomenon include Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Nicole Weidemann, and Joschka Fischer, the Foreign Minister of Germany (1998 until today)
21. IG Bau is Industriegewerkschaft Bau, or Industry Labour Union for Construction (workers)
22. James K. Galbraith and Maureen Berner, Inequality and industrial change: a global view (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001)
23. K. Marx and F. Engels, The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1952 edition) pp. 45-46