Urban Transformations
Subtitle: From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871-1933
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: Apr 26, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781442650534
Description: "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."--
Notes: Source title: Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871-1933 (German and European Studies)