Germanys other modernity Munich and the making of metropolis, 1895-1930

by Jerram, Leif

• ISBN13: 9780719076077
• ISBN10: 0719076072
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-01
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

Germany's Other Modernityexplores 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, 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 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.

Author Biography

Leif Jerram is Lecturer in Urban History at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Making sense of modernity	p. 2
Cities, buildings and space	p. 6
Historicising Germany, historicising buildings	p. 10
Structure of the book	p. 13
Grossstadtangst: disorder and discomfort in the metropolis	p. 20
The culture of anxiety	p. 24
Metropolis as Heimat	p. 25
Producing Heimat: strategy and tactics	p. 31
Exhibiting the city: exhibiting anxiety	p. 39
Stadtebau: building cities	p. 47
Conclusion	p. 60
Grossstadtfreude: joy in the metropolis	p. 67
Liberal mentality and the community of Grossstadte, 1890-1914	p. 69
Liberal mentality and the community of Grossstadte, 1918-30	p. 78
Urban selves and rural others: peripheries, edges and the colonial mentality	p. 82
The dysfunctional countryside and the useful city	p. 90
Modern signs, modern citizens: technological symbolism in the city	p. 92
Conclusion	p. 100
The interior world of modernity	p. 106
The social state and the ungrateful citzen	p. 110
Domestic space and the modern citizen	p. 126
Conclusion	p. 142
The production of space and the execution of social policy	p. 149
The politics of aesthetics	p. 151
Defining the problem, asking the question: the space of home	p. 153
Technologies of space: land versus architecture	p. 161
Technology, rent and construction	p. 170
From housing 'question' to design 'policy', 1917-30	p. 172
Conclusion	p. 185
Conclusion: Germany, space and modernity	p. 192
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 219
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