2 East cities designed by West planners
The headline pattern: how often a Western urban planner or firm authored a plan for an Eastern city — the cross-border flow of planning expertise into countries east of the Germany / Sweden / Austria / Italy line.
VERIFIED WEST → EAST ATTRIBUTIONS
3 Designer export flow — home country → cities abroad
Which planners and firms exported their work across borders. Stars (★) mark plans delivered to Eastern cities — the west→east pipeline called out explicitly.
| Designer | From | Abroad | Delivered to |
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4 Scandals, lawsuits & controversies by country
Where masterplans collided with legal trouble or public outcry. Counts come from the structured lawsuits_scandals field attached to each plan.
5 Scandal type breakdown
The nature of the trouble: lawsuit (plan challenged in court), controversy (sustained public dispute) or outright scandal. Stacked by country, with the most scandal-heavy cities listed below.
TOP SCANDAL-HEAVY CITIES
6 Era & decade analysis
Masterplan volume per decade since 1800. The spikes reveal the eras that reshaped Europe: Haussmann-era 1860s, post-WWI 1920s, reconstruction 1940s–60s, the contemporary surge from the 1990s.
7 Capitals vs others & plan scope
Do capital cities attract more masterplanning than the rest? And how does the split between city-scope and metropolitan-scope plans compare? Capitals here include national capitals and territory/region capitals.