Urban Transformations : From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871-1933 / Parker Daly Everett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Everett, Parker Daly, author.

Series:

German and European studies ; 33.

German and European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Germany--Berlin--History--19th century.

City planning.

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

Urbanization--Germany--Berlin--History--19th century.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century.

Berlin (Germany)--History--19th century.

Berlin (Germany).

Berlin (Germany)--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Urban Transformations is a theoretical and empirical account of the changing nature of urbanization in Germany. Where city planners and municipal administrations had emphasized free markets, the rule of law, and trade in 1871, by the 1930s they favored a quite different integrative, corporate, and productivist vision. Urban Transformations explores the broad-based social transformation connected to these changes and the contemporaneous shifts in the cultural and social history of global capitalism. Dynamic features of modern capitalist life, such as rapid industrialization, working-class radicalism, dramatic population growth, poor quality housing, and regional administrative incoherence significantly influenced the Greater Berlin region. Examining materials on city planning, municipal administration, architecture, political economy, and jurisprudence, Urban Transformations recasts the history of German and European urbanization, as well as that of modernist architecture and city planning.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Towards a Critical Historical Study of Greater Berlin

1. The Rise of Industrial Berlin

2. The Decline of Liberal City Planning

3. Creating Greater Berlin

4. City Planning and Municipal Administration in Total War and Revolution

5. Organic Municipal Government, 1920-1933

6. The Organic Machine: City Planning in the Weimar Republic

Conclusion: The Corporate City and a New Regime of Accumulation

Archival Sources and Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-2399-3

OCLC:

1099434866