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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. -- .

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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

Germanys other modernity

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 7/31/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719095382, 978-0719095382
      ISBN10: 0719095387

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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. -- .

      Table of Contents

      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

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