Contents Introduction: Contested Cities in an Era of Crisis7 Martin Baumeister, Bruno Bonomo, Dieter Schott The 1970s-a Period of Structural Rupture in Germany and Italy?31 Lutz Raphael Urban Politics and Visions of the City Changing Cities. An Urban Question for the Italian Communist Party53 Francesco Bartolini Nights of Miracles in Rome? The Estate Romana in the Years of Lead (1976-1979)73 Roberto Colozza Corviale, Rome. An Architectural and Social Utopia of the Seventies97 Vittorio Vidotto The Villaggio del Pilastro. Urban Planning, Social Housing and Grassroots Mobilization in a Suburb of Bologna (1960-1985)121 Giovanni Cristina Munich-City of Immigration? Integration Policies and Italian Active Participation in Munich Political and Social Life through Italian Organizations in the 1970s147 Grazia Prontera The Historic City between Protection and Reinvention Escaping Modernity? Civic Protest, the Preservation Movement and the Reinvention of the Old Town in Germany since the 1960s169 Gerhard Vinken La Festa è Finita! The Question of Centri Storici in 1970s Italy193 Guido Zucconi Bologna and the (Re-)Discovery of Urban Values211 Harald Bodenschatz From Vecchio Nucleo Cittadino to Centro Storico. On Bologna's Preservation Policies and the Social Cost of Urban Renewal (1955-1975)229 Jost Ulshöfer Protection of Cultural Heritage and Urban Development. Catania and Syracuse in the Seventies: A Comparative Approach249Melania Nucifora Contested Spaces and Social Movements Squatting means to destroy the capitalist plan in the urban quarters: Spontis, Autonomists and the Struggles over Public Commodities (1970-1983)277 Freia Anders / Alexander Sedlmaier Movimento del '77 Perceived. Reinvigorating Urban Protest in West Germany301 Sebastian Haumann The Struggle for Housing in Rome. Contexts, Protagonists and Practices of a Social Urban Conflict321 Luciano Villani Urban Movement à la Ruhr? The Initiatives for the Preservation of Workers' Settlements in the 1970s347 Christian Wicke Notes on Authors372 Index of Names 375 Index of Places 379