A women's Berlin
Subtitle: building the modern city
By: Despina Stratigakos.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780816653225; 9780816653232
Subjects: Architecture and women -- Germany -- Berlin; Space (Architecture) -- Germany -- Berlin; Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Description: "Despina Stratigakos is assistant professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a forgotten metropolis; title: Remapping Berlin: a modern woman's guidebook to the city; title: From Piccadilly to Potsdamer Strasse: the politics of clubhouse architecture; title: Home of our own: single women and the new domestic architecture; title: Exhibiting the new woman: the phenomenal success of Die Frau in Haus und Beruf; title: Architecture of social work: workers' clubs, social welfare institutions, and the debate over female housing inspectors; title: Epilogue: What a woman must know about Berlin, twenty years later.