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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480102903321

Autore

Jerram Leif

Titolo

Germany’s other modernity : Munich and the making of metropolis, 1895–1930 / / Leif Jerram

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2018

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2018

ISBN

1-5261-3029-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages)

Disciplina

711.4094

Soggetti

Urbanization - Germany - Munich

Architecture - Germany - 19th century

Architecture - Germany - History - 20th century

Architecture and society - Germany - Munich

Architecture - Germany - Munich

City planning - Germany - Munich - History - 19th century

City planning - Germany - Munich - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Munich (Germany) Buildings, structures, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Grossstadtangst : disorder and discomfort in the metropolis -- Grossstadtfreude : joy in the metropolis -- The interior world of modernity -- The production of space and the execution of social policy.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that shaped lives, restructured society, and conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the future in the crucial German generations that formed the young Reich, fought the Great War, and experienced the Weimar Republic. Focusing on ordinary buildings and the way they shaped ordinary lives, this study shows how material space could influence the lives of citizens, from the ways the



elderly slept at night to the economy of the city as a whole. It also shows how we integrate the spaces and places of our lives into our explanations of politics, culture and economics. It is aimed at those who want to understand urban modernity, Wilhelmine and Weimar Germany, the use of space in social policy and politics, and the design of cities.