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E-book City, Climate, and Architecture : A Theory of Collective Practice
Historically, the notion of man-made climate has been the decisive theo-retical interface along which the mutual appropriation of modern urban climatology and modern architecture and urban planning has taken place. Berlin and Vienna in particular were laboratories and intellectual centers of urban climatology in the 1920s and 30s, which can be ex-plained not least by the political conditions in both cities at the time—German social democracy and Austro-Marxism. The interest in the living conditions of the many and not—as in the case of the American ecology movement—of the individual may go some way to explaining why urban climatology originally developed under politically left-wing conditions. From its inception, urban climate research appeared to be both an ap-plied and interdisciplinary endeavor aimed at improving the built environ-ment of broad segments of the population. The interdisciplinary project of applied urban climatology, as I will show, was equally driven by clima-tologists, physicians, architects and urban planners; it developed in the wake of a discourse on urban hygiene that increasingly took into account the urban climate.
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