Reconstructing the City in Occupied Germany: Planning and Rebuilding in the British Zone, 1945-1949
Journal: Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester)
Year: 2010

This thesis investigates the reconstruction of German cities under British occupation between 1945 and 1949. During this period of political instability, economic crisis, material want and social rupture, German politicians, planners and city inhabitants slowly began to rebuild their cities and their lives and in the process transformed cities of rubble into viable, modern living spaces.\nThe thesis argues that the British occupation had a much greater influence over this process of German urban