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Book Emotional Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Ben Prestel
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-09-07
  • ISBN : 0192518178
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Emotional Cities written by Joseph Ben Prestel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional Cities offers an innovative account of the history of cities in the second half of the nineteenth century. Analyzing debates about emotions and urban change, it questions the assumed dissimilarity of the history of European and Middle Eastern cities during this period. The author shows that between 1860 and 1910, contemporaries in both Berlin and Cairo began to negotiate the transformation of the urban realm in terms of emotions. Looking at the ways in which a variety of urban dwellers, from psychologists to bar maids, framed recent changes in terms of their effect on love, honor, or disgust, the book reveals striking parallels between the histories of the two cities. By combining urban history and the history of emotions, Prestel proposes a new perspective on the emergence of different, yet comparable cities at the end of the nineteenth century.

Book Dem Einzelnen ein Ganzes

Download or read book Dem Einzelnen ein Ganzes written by Jan Pappelbaum and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Youth and Housing in Germany and the European Union

Download or read book Youth and Housing in Germany and the European Union written by Rene Bendit and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dieser Forschungsbericht, der aufgrund seiner internationalen Ausrichtung in englischer Sprache vorliegt, skizziert Bedingungen und Bewertungen des Wohnens junger Menschen in der Europäischen Union und in Deutschland. Biographische, räumliche, ökonomische und politische Aspekte spielen dabei eine Rolle. Es geht um Gründe für das unterschiedliche Auszugsalter und um gesellschaftliche Faktoren, die gegen eine psychologisch verkürzende Interpretation des "Nesthockerphänomens" sprechen, um Besonderheiten des Wohnens junger Männer und Frauen sowie um Unterschiede hinsichtlich Familienstand, Bildung, Einkommen und Wohnregion. Strukturelle Hemmnisse und Barrieren junger Menschen auf dem Wohnungsmarkt werden dargestellt.

Book Final Sale in Berlin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christoph Kreutzmüller
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2015-08-01
  • ISBN : 1782388133
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Final Sale in Berlin written by Christoph Kreutzmüller and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Nazis took power, Jewish businesspeople in Berlin thrived alongside their non-Jewish neighbors. But Nazi racism changed that, gradually destroying Jewish businesses before murdering the Jews themselves. Reconstructing the fate of more than 8,000 companies, this book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish economic activity and its obliteration. Rather than just examining the steps taken by the persecutors, it also tells the stories of Jewish strategies in countering the effects of persecution. In doing so, this book exposes a fascinating paradox where Berlin, serving as the administrative heart of the Third Reich, was also the site of a dense network for Jewish self-help and assertion.

Book Kunstprojekte Riem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Claudia Büttner
  • Publisher : Springer Vienna Architecture
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Kunstprojekte Riem written by Claudia Büttner and published by Springer Vienna Architecture. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Das Buch dokumentiert den Modellversuch, der die Entstehung der Messestadt Riem bei MA1/4nchen vier Jahre mit Kunst begleitete. Aoeber 20 Kunstprojekte international renommierter KA1/4nstler und KA1/4nstlerinnen fA1/4r das wachsende Gemeinwesen zwischen Baustelle und neuer Architektur werden in Text und Bild vorgestellt. Theoretische BeitrAge zur Konzeption und Realisation, UrbanitAt und Kunst in neuen Stadtgebieten und in der Demokratie liefern die Kulturreferentin Lydia Hartl, die verantwortliche Kuratorin Claudia BA1/4ttner, der Soziologie Hartmut HAuAermann, der Kritiker Heinz SchA1/4tz und die Publizistin Stella Rollig.

Book Transparency

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel Jutte
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2023-04-25
  • ISBN : 0300271522
  • Pages : 511 pages

Download or read book Transparency written by Daniel Jutte and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging illustrated history of transparency as told through the evolution of the glass window Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect transparency from, for instance, political institutions, corporations, and the media. But how did it become such a powerful—and global—idea? From ancient glass to Apple’s corporate headquarters, this book is the first to probe how Western people have experienced, conceptualized, and evaluated transparency. Daniel Jütte argues that the experience of transparency has been inextricably linked to one element of Western architecture: the glass window. Windows are meant to be unnoticed. Yet a historical perspective reveals the role that glass has played in shaping how we see and interpret the world. A seemingly “pure” material, glass has been endowed, throughout history, with political, social, and cultural meaning, in manifold and sometimes conflicting ways. At the same time, Jütte raises questions about the future of vitreous transparency—its costs in terms of visual privacy but also its ecological price tag in an age of accelerating climate change.

Book Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy

Download or read book Big Business and the Crisis of German Democracy written by Adam Bisno and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains why the liberalism of a group of elites, the owners of Berlin's grand hotels, gave way to a more aggressive nationalism and conservatism after World War I – a shift which contributed directly to Hitler's rise to power. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Book Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Download or read book Reshaping Capitalism in Weimar and Nazi Germany written by Moritz Föllmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that capitalism had a significant presence in Weimar and Nazi Germany, but in a different guise from before World War I, this volume sheds fresh light on the question of how Adolf Hitler and his followers came to power and were able to gain widespread support.

Book Nazis and Nobles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephan Malinowski
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2020-12-10
  • ISBN : 0192580159
  • Pages : 672 pages

Download or read book Nazis and Nobles written by Stephan Malinowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis' rise to power. While often confidently referred to, the 'fateful' role played by the German nobility is rarely, if ever, investigated in any real detail. Nazis and Nobles now fills this gap, providing the first systematic investigation of the role played by the nobility in German political life between Germany's defeat in the First World War in 1918 and the consolidation of Nazi power in the 1930s. As Stephan Malinowski shows, the German nobility was too weak to prevent the German Revolution of 1918 but strong enough to take an active part in the struggle against the Weimar Republic. In a real twist of historical irony, members of the nobility were as prominent in the destruction of Weimar democracy as they were to be years later in Graf Stauffenberg's July 1944 bomb plot against Hitler. In this skilful portrait of an aristocratic world that was soon to disappear, Malinowski gives us for the first time the in-depth story of the German nobility's social decline and political radicalization in the inter-war years - and the troubled mésalliance to which this was to lead between the majority of Germany's nobles and the National Socialists.

Book Performing the Matrix

Download or read book Performing the Matrix written by Meike Wagner and published by epodium. This book was released on 2008 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing the Matrix. Mediating Cultural Performances presents a collection of case studies and analyses dealing with performances of the matrix that take up questions of identities and social thinking, visualization and perception, the discursive power of texts and historiographic paradigms, and artistic strategies of political intervention. Since 1999 The Matrix has become a popular catchword through the homonymous Wachowski brothers’ movie. As both a traditional concept and a popular phenomenon, ‹matrix› can take on a new value when reconsidered in the light of performance studies. A behind-the-scenes look at theatre, performance, political activism and events may reveal a productive mediating structure that can metaphorically be described as a matrix. This mediating structure and its materializations are fundamentally reshaping modern culture. Accordingly ‹politics of visibility›, ‹media networking›,‹telepresence› and ‹liveness› are considered to be understood as performances of the matrix. If so, how does this understanding of cultural performances ‹as always already mediatized› influence contemporary concepts of performance and media?

Book A Modern History of European Cities

Download or read book A Modern History of European Cities written by Rosemary Wakeman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey to cities and towns across the continent, in search of the patterns of development that have shaped the urban landscape as indelibly European. The focus is on the built environment, the social and cultural transformations that mark the patterns of continuity and change, and the transition to modern urban society. Including over 60 images that serve to illuminate the analysis, the book examines whether there is a European city, and if so, what are its characteristics? Wakeman offers an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates concepts from cultural and postcolonial studies, as well as urban geography, and provides full coverage of urban society not only in western Europe, but also in eastern and southern Europe, using various cities and city types to inform the discussion. The book provides detailed coverage of the often-neglected urbanization post-1945 which allows us to more clearly understand the modernizing arc Europe has followed over the last two centuries.

Book Komplexe Welt

    Book Details:
  • Author : Silke Göttsch-Elten
  • Publisher : Waxmann Verlag Gmbh
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 500 pages

Download or read book Komplexe Welt written by Silke Göttsch-Elten and published by Waxmann Verlag Gmbh. This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Das war die DDR

Download or read book Das war die DDR written by Heiner Timmermann and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Park  Tenement  Slaughterhouse

Download or read book Park Tenement Slaughterhouse written by Antonio Carbone and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welche Wahrnehmungen und Vorstellungen von ihrer Stadt hatte die Oberschicht im späten 19. Jahrhundert? Antonio Carbone zeigt dies exemplarisch am Beispiel von Buenos Aires, wo sich – an einem Wendepunkt der Geschichte des modernen Argentinien und der globalen Stadtgeschichte – nach dramatischen Cholera- und Gelbfieberepidemien eine breite Diskussion um die »Krise des Urbanen« entzündete, die zu einer partiellen Umgestaltung der Stadt führte. In seiner Kultur-, Sozial-, Global- und Umweltgeschichte nimmt er besonders drei urbane Brennpunkte in den Blick: die industriellen Schlachthöfe, die von Migrant_innen bewohnten Mietshäuser und einen Park im Stadtteil Palermo.

Book Remembering the German Democratic Republic

Download or read book Remembering the German Democratic Republic written by D. Clarke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memories of and attitudes to the German Democratic Republic (GDR), or East Germany, within contemporary Germany are characterized by their variety and complexity, whilst the debate over how to remember the GDR tells us a lot about how Germans see themselves and their future. This volume provides a range of international perspectives.

Book German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism  1890 1924

Download or read book German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism 1890 1924 written by Maiken Umbach and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 bourgeios modernism shaped the infrastructure of social and political life in the early twentieth century and transformed German cities.

Book The Sociology of Space

Download or read book The Sociology of Space written by Martina Löw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic theory of space that accounts for the relational context in which space is constituted. This innovative view on the interdependency of material, social, and symbolic dimensions of space also permits a new perspective on architecture and urban development.