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- Title
Disputed transformations: deindustrialization and redevelopment of Cologne's Stollwerck factory, 1970–1980.
- Authors
HAUMANN, SEBASTIAN
- Abstract
Urban development corresponds with economic shifts. In the second half of the twentieth century, when traditional forms of industrial production declined in many western cities, this posed new kinds of challenges. Cities were in need of a new economic base and at the same time had to cope with the abandonment of industrial sites. This article highlights the agency of local societies in shaping this process of deindustrialization and redevelopment. It interprets deindustrialization and redevelopment as a process of transformation which was open-ended and a matter of intense negotiation between diverging interests at the local level. In analysing the highly contentious case of the disused Stollwerck chocolate factory in Cologne, the article traces a complex set of site-specific factors of deindustrialization and redevelopment.
- Subjects
COLOGNE (Germany); GERMANY; CHOCOLATE factories; DEINDUSTRIALIZATION; URBAN planning; STOLLWERCK GmbH; PLANT shutdowns; PROPERTY rights; PUBLIC interest; SQUATTERS; HISTORY; HISTORY of urban planning
- Publication
Urban History, 2013, Vol 40, Issue 1, p156
- ISSN
0963-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963926812000685