Urban Planning in Nazi Germany

Architecture Book Award 2025 for "Urban Planning in Nazi Germany"

Our book "Urban Planning in Nazi Germany" (German edition: "Städtebau im Nationalsozialismus") received the Architecture Book Award 2025 for the category: History on 27.11.2025 in London. This prize was awarded by the World Architecture Festival (Miami), the Temple Bar Trust and The Architects' Company (London).

The award was justified as follows:

"Perhaps not an obvious topic for a prize-winning book, this huge and impressively edited volume describes in a clear straightforward manner the full gamut of urban planning under Hitler’s regime. Part of a series of similar studies into mid-20th century totalitarianism, it is both exhaustive and terrifying in equal measure. It is commendable that these German scholars were willing to look at this dark historical period with such rigour and candour: other nations should likewise be scrutinising their own unsavoury built heritage."

Jury: Murray Frazer, Simon Henley, Cindy Walters

Comments

• December 2025, DOM magazine No.21. Damien Leaf: The Enduring Presence of the Past. A recently published book on urban planning in Nazi Germany has received praise from readers and the press alike. Now it has been honoured with an award.
• ARL Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association

Publisher Information

• Publisher Information
• Publisher Leaflet

Podcast

• 26.08.2025. Urban Planning in Nazi Germany. New Books Network Podcast. Hosted by with Jenna Pittman.

Review

• 2025, FORMA CIVITATIS, International Journal of urban and territorial morphological studies 4.2024. Martin Ebert: Urban Planning in Nazi Germany. Book review.
• 08.2025, Journal of Planning History 1-3. Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago: Book Review: Urban Planning in Nazi Germany. Attack, Triumph, Terror in the European Context 1933-1945.
• 28.09.2025, il manifesto. Maurizio Giufrè: La baracca di legno come tipo edilizio del nazismo: una ricerca comparata.

Book presentations

• 25.07.2024. RC21, The politics and spaces of encounters: advancing dialogues between and within the Global North and the Global South. Conference in Santiago de Chile.
• 07.08.2024. Estudiando el urbanismo de regímenes de ultra-derecha. Experiencias europeas. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.
• 08.08.2024. Análisis del urbanismo del nazismo: instrumento de dominio y aniquilamiento. Kultur Intensiv. Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires. [Link]
• 03.07.2025. (Un)Disputed Space? Testimonies of European Cultures of Remembrance. Conference: International Forum on Urbanism. Universidade de Lisboa (Lissabon).

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