Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]

Description:

xvi, 638 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Weimar and now : German cultural criticism ; 46

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Includes articles translated from the German and French.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN:

9780520270374 (hardback)
0520270371 (hardback)
9780520951495

Subject:

Public spaces Germany Berlin.
Espaces publics Allemagne Berlin.
HISTORY Europe General.
Architecture and Planning.
Public spaces.
Architektur
City planning Germany Berlin History 19th century.
City planning Germany Berlin History 20th century.
Offentliga platser historia.
Berlin (Germany) History Sources.
Berlin (Allemagne) Histoire Sources.
Germany Berlin.
Berlin
Tyskland Berlin.

Form/genre:

History.
Sources.

Added entries:

Whyte, Iain Boyd, 1947- editor.
Frisby, David, editor.
Weimar and now ; 46.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 280550
Call No.: BIB 217387
Status: Available