Germany's other modernity : Munich and the building of metropolis, 1895-1930 / Leif Jerram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jerram, Leif, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Germany--Munich--History--20th century.

City planning.

Architecture and society--Germany--Munich.

Architecture and society.

Urbanization--Germany--Munich.

Urbanization.

Munich (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Munich (Germany).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 229 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This book focuses on the ways in which German urban élites tried to mould German cities between the 'birth' of modern planning in the 1890s and the complete cessation of building caused by the economic collapse around 1930. It investigates the attributes which 'metropolis', was given by early twentieth-century Germans. The book takes Munich as its 'still point in the turning world' of German urban development in particular, but makes arguments relevant well beyond the southern capital's city limits. It presents a case study of the urban landscape of modernity and modernisation which was increasingly. The book commences with exploration of the balanced construction of 'the city' in planners' world views. It addresses contemporaries' 'action plans' as responses to the problems of modernity, and characterises these actions as themselves distinctly modern. The book also tries to restore an emphasis on contemporaries' nuanced views of modernity and modernisation, and explores the balanced construction of 'the city' in planners' world views. Discussing hospitals, old people's homes and social housing, the book discusses that space could be a highly coercive tool for the social reformer, and scholars need to address material effects. It also demonstrates how intellectual impasses in manipulating the technologies of space could have profound political consequences. The ways that the built environment is currently used as evidence in historical writing are problematic. The book treats modernity with little eye for Modernism.

Contents:

Grossstadtangst : disorder and discomfort in the metropolis

Grossstadtfreude : joy in the metropolis

The interior world of modernity

The production of space and the execution of social policy.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Mar 2026).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-217) and index.

ISBN:

1-5261-3029-7

OCLC:

1054063376