Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871-1933 Contributor(s): Everett, Parker Daly (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442650532 ISBN-13: 9781442650534 Publisher: University of Toronto Press OUR PRICE: $92.15 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Germany - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development |
Dewey: 307.121 |
Series: German and European Studies |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.4" W x 9.2" (1.50 lbs) 392 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
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Publisher 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 favoured 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Everett, Parker Daly: - Parker Daly Everett is an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Humanities and Arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. |