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University of California Press
- Metropolis Berlin: 1880–1940
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
summary
Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as one of the world’s great cities and those who observed this process: architects, city planners, sociologists, political theorists, historians, cultural critics, novelists, essayists, and journalists. Divided into nineteen sections, each prefaced by an introductory essay, the account unfolds chronologically, with the particular structural concerns of the moment addressed in sequence—be they department stores in 1900, housing in the 1920s, or parade grounds in 1940. Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 not only details the construction of Berlin, but explores homes and workplaces, public spaces, circulation, commerce, and leisure in the German metropolis as seen through the eyes of all social classes, from the humblest inhabitants of the city slums, to the great visionaries of the modern city, and the demented dictator resolved to remodel Berlin as Germania.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Illustrations
- pp. xv-xvi
- General Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- Part One: Booming Metropolis
- 1. The Metropolitan Panorama
- pp. 9-48
- 3. Production, Commerce, and Consumption
- pp. 77-106
- 4. Public Transport and Infrastructure
- pp. 107-133
- 5. The Proletarian City
- pp. 134-171
- 6. Public Realm and Popular Culture
- pp. 172-205
- 7. The Bourgeois City
- pp. 206-244
- 8. The Green Outdoors
- pp. 245-270
- Part Two: World War I and the City
- 9. City in Crisis
- pp. 273-290
- 10. Critical Responses
- pp. 291-312
- Part Three: Weltstadt—World City
- 11. Planning the World City
- pp. 315-366
- 12. Berlin Montage
- pp. 367-410
- 14. Commodities and Display
- pp. 437-462
- 15. Housing
- pp. 463-507
- 16. Mass and Leisure
- pp. 508-550
- 17. Technology and Mobility
- pp. 551-581
- 18. From Berlin to Germania
- pp. 582-610
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 611-618
- Photo Credits
- pp. 619-620
- Further Reading
- pp. 639-640
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520951495
Related ISBN(s)
9780520270374
MARC Record
OCLC
830945379
Pages
632
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No