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Author Jerram, Leif, author.

Title Germany's other modernity : Munich and the making of metropolis, 1895-1930 / Leif Jerram
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Contents Germany's other modernity: Munich and the making of metropolis, 1895-1930; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. Großstadtangst: disorder and discomfort in the metropolis; 2. Großstadtfreude: joy in the metropolis; 3. The interior world of modernity; 4. The production of space and the execution of social policy; Conclusion: Germany, space and modernity; Bibliography; Index
Summary This book is about what it meant to build a city in Germany at the turn of the twentieth century. It explores the physical spaces and mental attitudes that conditioned beliefs about the past and expectations for the future in the crucial German generations that shaped the young Reich, fought the Great War, and experienced the Weimar Republic
Notes Originally published 2007
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, Oct. 9, 2018)
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Subject City planning -- Germany -- Munich -- History -- 20th century
City planning -- Germany -- Munich -- History -- 19th century
Architecture -- Germany -- Munich
Architecture and society -- Germany -- Munich
Architecture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Architecture -- Germany -- 19th century
Urbanization -- Germany -- Munich
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Architecture
Architecture and society
Buildings
City planning
Urbanization
SUBJECT Munich (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Subject Germany
Germany -- Munich
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781526130297
1526130297