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Author Hake, Sabine, 1956-

Title Topographies of class : modern architecture and mass society in Weimar Berlin / Sabine Hake
Published Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Contents 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
Summary Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, the author examines the way in which architectural projects, debates, and representations in literature, photography, and film played a role in establishing the terms under which contemporaries made sense of the rise of white-collar society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-312) and indexes
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Subject Architecture -- Germany -- Berlin -- History
Mass society.
Architecture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- General.
Architecture
Buildings
Intellectual life
Mass society
Massengesellschaft
Architektur
Architecture -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
Mass society.
Arkitektur -- Tyskland -- Berlin -- historia -- 1918-1933 (Weimarrepubliken)
Samhällsplanering -- Tyskland -- Berlin.
SUBJECT Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013349
Berlin (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Berlin (Germany) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Subject Germany
Germany -- Berlin
Berlin
Berlin (Germany) -- History -- 1918-1945.
Berlin (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
Berlin (Germany) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Berlin -- byggnader.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020706786
ISBN 9780472025190
0472025198
1282597566
9781282597563
9786612597565
6612597569