Metropolis Berlin [[electronic resource] ] : 1880-1940 / / edited by Iain Boyd Whyte and David Frisby

• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (659 p.)
• Disciplina: 711.40943155
• Soggetto topico: Public spaces - Germany - Berlin
• Soggetto geografico: Berlin (Germany) History Sources
• Soggetto non controllato: 19th century germany; 20th century germany; architectural history; architecture books; books for berlin lovers; building a city; cities; city building; city life; creation of berlin; european anthropology; european architecture; european history; german architecture; german historians; german history; german metropolis; german politics and economy; germanist; history of berlin; hitler germany; imperial germany; modern berlin; national socialism; politics; revolution; urban planning; urbanization; wwii germany
• Classificazione: HIS010000
• Altri autori: WhyteIain Boyd <1947-> FrisbyDavid
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- General Introduction -- 1. The Metropolitan Panorama -- 2. Building and Regulating the Metropolis -- 3. Production, Commerce, and Consumption -- 4. Public Transport and Infrastructure -- 5. The Proletarian City -- 6. Public Realm and Popular Culture -- 7. The Bourgeois City -- 8. The Green Outdoors -- 9. City in Crisis -- 10. Critical Responses -- 11. Planning the World City -- 12. Berlin Montage -- 13. Work -- 14. Commodities and Display -- 15. Housing -- 16. Mass and Leisure -- 17. Technology and Mobility -- 18. From Berlin to Germania -- Acknowledgments -- Photo Credits -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as one of the world's great cities and those who observed this process: architects, city planners, sociologists, political theorists, historians, cultural critics, novelists, essayists, and journalists. Divided into nineteen sections, each prefaced by an introductory essay, the account unfolds chronologically, with the particular structural concerns of the moment addressed in sequence-be they department stores in 1900, housing in the 1920's, or parade grounds in 1940. Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 not only details the construction of Berlin, but explores homes and workplaces, public spaces, circulation, commerce, and leisure in the German metropolis as seen through the eyes of all social classes, from the humblest inhabitants of the city slums, to the great visionaries of the modern city, and the demented dictator resolved to remodel Berlin as Germania.
• Titolo autorizzato: Metropolis Berlin
• ISBN: 0-520-95149-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812265403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Weimar and now ; ; 46.