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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456094303321

Autore

Hake Sabine <1956->

Titolo

Topographies of class [[electronic resource] ] : modern architecture and mass society in Weimar Berlin / / Sabine Hake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, c2008

ISBN

0-472-07038-X

1-282-59756-6

9786612597565

0-472-02519-8

Descrizione fisica

viii, 323 p. : ill., maps

Collana

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Disciplina

943/.155085

Soggetti

Architecture - Germany - Berlin - History - 20th century

Mass society

Electronic books.

Berlin (Germany) History 1918-1945

Berlin (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc

Berlin (Germany) Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-312) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Setting the scene : Weimar Berlin, circa 1920 -- Mapping Weimar society : on masses, classes, and white-collar workers -- Organizing the modern masses : new building in Weimar Berlin -- Walking in the metropolis : the city texts of Franz Hessel and Siegfried Kracauer -- Picturing the new Berlin : photography, architecture, and modern mass society -- Deconstructing modern subjectivity : on Berlin Alexanderplatz -- Reconstructing modern subjectivity : on Berlin, symphony of the big city.