Transnationalism and the German City [electronic resource] /
Diefendorf, J.editor.
Ward, J.editor.
Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction Transnationalism and the German City*; Part I Contested Urban Publics; Chapter One Enlightenment in the European City: Rethinking German Urbanism and the Public Sphere; Chapter Two Posen or Poznan, Rathaus or Ratusz: Nationalizing the Cityscape in the German-Polish Borderland; Chapter Three Inclusion and Segregation in Berlin, the "Social City"; Chapter Four "Wild Barbecuing": Urban Citizenship and the Politics of Transnationality in Berlin's Tiergarten; Part II Crossing Boundaries in Modern German Planning
Chapter Five Transnational Dimensions of German Anti-Modern Modernism: Ernst May in BreslauChapter Six Was There an Ideal Socialist City? Socialist New Towns as Modern Dreamscapes; Chapter Seven Housing as Transnational Provocation in Cold War Berlin; Chapter Eight Transatlantic Crossings of Planning Ideas: The Neighborhood Unit in the USA, UK, and Germany; Part III City Cultures and the German Transnational Imaginary; Chapter Nine Princes and Fools, Parades and Wild Women: Creating, Performing, and Preserving Urban Identity through Carnival in
Chapter Ten The Local, the National-and the Transnational? Spatial Dimensions in Hamburg's Memory of World War I during the WeChapter Eleven From the American West to West Berlin: Wim Wenders, Border Crossings, and the Transnational Imaginary; Part IV German Urban Heritage for a Transnational Era; Chapter Twelve Post-Postwar Re-Construction of a Destroyed Heimat: Perspectives on German Discourse and Practice; Chapter Thirteen Berlin's Museum Island: Marketing the German National Past in the Age of Globalization
Chapter Fourteen The Historic Preservation Fallacy? Transnational Culture, Urban Identity, and Monumental Architecture in BerlNotes on Contributors; Index
Includes index.
Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization.
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Europe-History.
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World History, Global and Transnational History.
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Modern History.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
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