Metropolis Berlin : 1880-1940 / edited by Iain Boyd Whyte and David Frisby.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947-

Frisby, David.

Series:

Weimar and now ; 46.

Weimar and now : German cultural criticism ; 46

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public spaces--Germany--Berlin.

Public spaces.

Berlin (Germany)--History--Sources.

Berlin (Germany).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (659 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

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 1920's, 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

General Introduction

1. The Metropolitan Panorama

2. Building and Regulating the Metropolis

3. Production, Commerce, and Consumption

4. Public Transport and Infrastructure

5. The Proletarian City

6. Public Realm and Popular Culture

7. The Bourgeois City

8. The Green Outdoors

9. City in Crisis

10. Critical Responses

11. Planning the World City

12. Berlin Montage

13. Work

14. Commodities and Display

15. Housing

16. Mass and Leisure

17. Technology and Mobility

18. From Berlin to Germania

Acknowledgments

Photo Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520951495

0520951492

OCLC:

831119160