German cities and bourgeois modernism, 1890-1924
By: Maiken Umbach.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780199557394
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Germany -- History; City and town life -- Germany -- History; Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Germany -- History; Material culture -- Germany -- History; Architecture -- Germany -- History; Middle class -- Germany -- History; Germany -- Social conditions -- 1871-1918; Germany -- Social conditions -- 1918-1933; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918; Germany -- Politics and government -- 1918-1933
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sense of time : configuring history and memory in the city; title: The sense of place : representing the local in the modern city; title: Nature and culture : greening the city; title: The designed object : commercial culture and the global market; title: Liberal governmentality and the spatial politics of "Burgerlichkeit"; title: Conclusion and epilogue: Bourgeois modernism and national socialism.