The sense of time : configuring history and memory in the city -- The sense of place : representing the local in the modern city -- Nature and culture : greening the city -- The designed object : commercial culture and the global market -- Liberal governmentality and the spatial politics of "Burgerlichkeit" -- Conclusion and epilogue : Bourgeois modernism and national socialism
Summary
This book is a study of the distinctive brand of modernism that emerged in late 19th century Germany, illustrating through a series of analyses of key buildings and urban spaces how bourgeois modernism shaped the infrastructure of social and political life in the early twentieth century and transformed German cities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-245) and index
