Urban Planning (German Union)

Urban planning under the German Union is one of Berlin’s most wide reaching reforms and policies under reconstruction since the end of the civil war. Urban planning was used to re-map and re-plan damaged cities in the country, which was hugely successful. German-style urban planning was named “Syndicalist Urbanism”, owning to most Germans using urban planning as a way to permanently cut ties from its histories of pro-capitalist republicanism and monarchism.
== History ==
Urban planning under the German Union began shortly after the country began its decade long reconstruction. The civil war uprooted urban centers, decimated rural areas and left thousands of people homeless. Political violence was increasing, and it wasn’t until the end of the Social Protection Act that urban planning was given serious thought for re-stabilizing the still ruined cities. As a result, in 1923, the Trade Union Congress sponsored the creation of the Central Urban Committee. The CUC was and still is comprised of a council of several most prominent German architects who decide together how cities should be rebuilt and run according to syndicalist principles.
The CUC meets two times a year to discuss the development of Syndicalist Urbanism and if any changes need to be amended for any sort of reason. For now, most principles have stuck with the CUC and cities have been re-shaped accordingly.
== Urban planning ==
Syndicalist Urbanism mostly is concentrated on still continuing rural-to-urban migration. In cities like the Rhineland experiencing new urban growth in the 30s, new, high-density neighborhoods were created for new arrivals, while in some rarer cases, new cities entirely were created to accommodate for this migration. 
== Effects ==
The total effects of Syndicalist Urbanism is hard to fully pin down, mostly because it’s effects differ from city to city. In places like Berlin, which were and still are hotspots for internal and external migration, the capital had become more densely populated, with small, traditional European buildings use to house larger families, while railroads have been extensively used for national travel. The popularity of garden cities has lead to newly constructed urban centers to be modeled around the movement. Various neighborhoods were also modeled off of garden cities and the preservation of green spaces.
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