Download or read book Wohnen in der Grossstadt 1900 1939 written by Alena Janatková and published by Franz Steiner Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der Band fasst Beitrage zusammen, die auf der Leipziger Konferenz im Jahre 2001 vorgestellt wurde. Gemeinsames Thema ist das Wohnen in europaischen Grossstadten. Diskutiert werden die stadtischen und die staatlichen Initiativen zur Behegung der Wohnungsnot in der Zwischenkriegszeit, wobei Sozialpolitik und soziale Kontrolle, staatspolitische Rhetorik und die Realitat der Wohnungspolitik gesonderte Aspekte darstellen. Konzepte der Klein- bzw. Minimalwohnung und Modelle burgerlichen Wohnens werden im Zusammenhang von Konzeptionen der Grossstadt und deren Modernisierung bzw. Technisierung thematisiert. Mit dem Versuch, die ostmitteleuropaischen Grossstadte und deren Wohnverhaltnisse im gesamteuropaischen Kontext zu sehen, werden die Grenzen in der Geographie der aktuellen Forschung zugleich uberschritten und hinterfragt. Inhalt: Adelheid von Saldern: Wohnen in der europaischen Grossstadt 1900-1939. Eine Einfuhrung Grossstadtische Stadtviertel und Wohnmilieus: Anna Zarnowska: Veranderungen der Wohnkultur im Prozess der Adaption von Zuwanderern an das grossstadtische Leben an der Wende vom 19. zum 20. Jahrhundert am Beispiel von Warschau und Lodz Sabine Rutar: Wohnen in Triest um die Jahrhundertwende Agnieszka Zablocka-Kos: Wohnen in der City. Die Breslauer Altstadt im 19. Jahrhundert Uwe Schneider: Das Konzept der "Gartenkultur" und die "Entdeckung" des Siedlergartens Gerd Kuhn: "Wildes" Siedeln und "stille" Suburbanisierung. Von den Wohnlauben zu den privaten Stadtrandsiedlungen Kommunale Wohnpolitik und gemeinnutziger Wohnungsbau: Christoph Kuhn: Stadterweiterung und hygienischer Stadtebau in Leipzig. Zu den administrativen Wurzeln einer Wohnreform um 1900 Anna Bitner-Nowak: Wohnungspolitik und Wohnverhaltnisse in Posen in den Jahren 1990-1939 Hanna Kozinska-Witt: Die Krakauer kommunale Selbstverwaltung und die Frage der Kleinwohnungen 1900-1939 Ute Caumanns: Mietskasernen und "Glaserne Hauser" Soziales Wohnen in Warschau zwischen Philanthropie und Genossenschaft 1900-1939 Andreas R. Hofmann: Von der Spekulation zur Intervention. Formen des Arbeiterwohnungsbaus in Lodz und Brunn vor und nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg Modernisierung des Wohnens und soziale Disziplinierung: Dieter Schott: Wohnen im Netz. Zur Modernisierung grossstadtischen Wohnens durch technische Netzwerke 1900-1939 Anna Veronika Wendland: "Europa" zivilisiert den "Osten" Stadthygienische Interventionen, Wohnen und Konsum in Wilna und Lemberg 1900-1930 Martina Hessler: Die Vertreibung ins Paradies. Von der technisierten Wohnmaschine zur "Primitivsiedlung" Wohnreform in Frankfurt a.M. zwischen 1926 und 1939 Alena Janatkova: Die Bauaufgabe Kleinwohnung in der Tschechoslowakei der Zwischenkriegszeit Beate Stortkuhl: Wohnungsbau der Zwischenkriegszeit in Breslau im ostmitteleuropaischen Kontext. Eine Vergleichsstudie Schichtenspezifisches Wohnen: Kazimierz Karolczak: Das Palais als Wohnstatte der Aristokratie am Fallbeispiel Lemberg Hanna Grzeszczuk-Brendel: Das Villen-Mietshaus in Posen: Eine neue Vorstellung von Wohnung und Stadt Gabor Gyani: Housing patterns of Burgertum: A Budapest case study from the 1920s Iris Meder: Josef Frank und die Wiener Schule der skeptischen Moderne Hakan Forsell: "Paying the rent". A perspective on changes in an every-day pattern. Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna Susanne Schmidt: Arbeitersiedlung und Arbeiteralltag im oberschlesischen Industriegebiet Abbildungsverzeichnis - Personenregister - Ortsregister

Download or read book Building Nazi Germany written by Joshua Hagen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power. The authors show that it was an intentional program to thoroughly reorganize the country's economic, cultural, and political landscapes in order to create a dramatically new Germany, saturated with Nazi ideology.

Download or read book The Dictators Hitler s Germany Stalin s Russia written by Richard Overy and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-01-17 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book of great importance; it surpasses all others in breadth and depth."--Commentary If the past century will be remembered for its tragic pairing of civilized achievement and organized destruction, at the heart of darkness may be found Hitler, Stalin, and the systems of domination they forged. Their lethal regimes murdered millions and fought a massive, deadly war. Yet their dictatorships took shape within formal constitutional structures and drew the support of the German and Russian people. In the first major historical work to analyze the two dictatorships together in depth, Richard Overy gives us an absorbing study of Hitler and Stalin, ranging from their private and public selves, their ascents to power and consolidation of absolute rule, to their waging of massive war and creation of far-flung empires of camps and prisons. The Nazi extermination camps and the vast Soviet Gulag represent the two dictatorships in their most inhuman form. Overy shows us the human and historical roots of these evils.

Download or read book Metropolis written by Gábor Halász and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-17 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The German Urban Experience written by Anthony McElligott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1930s over two-thirds of Germans lived in towns and cities, and those who did not found themselves inexorably affected by the ever-growing urban vortex. The German Urban Experience 1900 - 1945 surveys the social and cultural history of Germany in this crucial period through written, visual and oral sources. Focusing on urbanism as one of the major forces of change, this book presents a wide range of archive sources, many available for the first time, as well as film scenes, literature and art. Exploring the German experience of 'urbanism as a way of life' in cities from Berlin and Dresden to Hamburg and Leipzig, this book discusses: the concept of the urban experience the development of urban infrastructure and transport the social conditions of the urban poor health and the effects of the city on the body production and commerce in German cities the city as a challenge to traditional gender hierarchies

Download or read book In the Wake of War written by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-06-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble. At the war's end, observers thought that it would take forty years to rebuild, but by the late 1950s West Germany's cities had risen anew. The housing crisis had been overcome and virtually all important monuments reconstructed, and the cities had reclaimed their characteristic identities. Everywhere there was a mixture of old and new: historic churches and town halls stood alongside new housing and department stores; ancient street layouts were crossed or encircled by wide arteries; old city centers were balanced by garden suburbs laid out according to modern planning principles. In this book, Diefendorf examines the questions raised by this remarkable feat of urban reconstruction. He explains who was primarily responsible, what accounted for the speed of rebuilding, and how priorities were set and decisions acted upon. He argues that in such crucial areas as architectural style, urban planning, historic preservation, and housing policy, the Germans drew upon personnel, ideas, institutions, and practical experiences from the Nazi and pre-Nazi periods. Diefendorf shows how the rebuilding of West Germany's cities after 1945 can only be understood in terms of long-term continuities in urban development.

Download or read book The German Urban Experience 1900 1945 written by Anthony McElligott and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a study of the social and cultural history of Germany through written, visual and oral sources during this important period.

Download or read book Frontsoldaten written by Stephen Fritz and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1997-06-19 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal documents of these soldiers, most from the Russian front, where the majority of German infantrymen saw service, paint a richly textured portrait of the Landser that illustrates the complexity and paradox of his daily life. Although clinging to a self-image as a decent fellow, the German soldier nonetheless committed terrible crimes in the name of National Socialism. Idealistic and motivated by a desire to create a new society, he waged a cruel ideological war on behalf of a racist conception of national community. Though he was fiercely proud of his skill and resilience, his stubborn efforts ultimately led only to more senseless destruction.

Download or read book English Deutsch written by Hans-Joerg Salízites and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Kombination von Wirtschaft und Recht ist insbesondere für Unternehmen, Übersetzer und Wirtschafts- bzw. Jurastudenten von starkem Interesse. Das Lexikon ist in vieljähriger Arbeit von einem Profi seines Fachs zusammengestellt worden. Es hat sich einen Platz im Handapparat vieler Nachfrager in kurzer Zeit erobert.

Download or read book Reconstruction and Cold War in Germany written by Armin Grünbacher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the Second World War Germany was devastated; her cities lay in ruins, industrial output was minimal, the economy was in tatters and her territories divided into four zones, each governed by one of the main Allied powers. Yet the rapid onset of the Cold War ensured that the western powers needed to re-establish a strong West German state to act as a bulwark against Soviet influence. In this study the critical role of the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) in this process is closely examined. Established by the Anglo-American occupying powers in 1948, the main remit of the KfW was to provide investment for German industry, to help kick-start the economy. Its particular function was to provide loans to key industries that the commercial banks considered too risky or which offered unacceptably low returns. Yet as this study makes clear, its work was from the outset highly politicized, and its role in German reconstruction went much further than simply providing funds for capital investment. Bankrolled mainly by American Marshall Plan counterpart funds, the KfW was viewed in Washington as an essential tool in the wider Western response to the challenges of Soviet communism. As is shown throughout the book, this dual role inevitably caused some difficulties, as national interests could be overridden in favour of Cold War considerations. As Germany's post-war economy revived, this led to further tensions between an increasingly prosperous and self-confident West Germany and the continued interference of the Allied powers, particularly the USA, who had their own Cold War agenda. Utilizing archives in Germany, Britain and the United States, Dr Grünbacher has provided a clear synthesis of this multi-faceted and complex subject. By approaching the economic development of Federal Germany through the locus of the KfW, he offers a fascinating insight into the interactions of economics, politics and ideology that will be welcomed by all scholars with an inte

Download or read book Architecture and the Welfare State written by Mark Swenarton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following World War Two, and in part in response to the Cold War, governments across Western Europe set out ambitious programmes for social welfare and the redistribution of wealth that aimed to improve the everyday lives of their citizens. Many of these welfare state programmes - housing, schools, new towns, cultural and leisure centres – involved not just construction but a new approach to architectural design, in which the welfare objectives of these state-funded programmes were delineated and debated. The impact on architects and architectural design was profound and far-reaching, with welfare state projects moving centre-stage in architectural discourse not just in Europe but worldwide. This is the first book to explore the architecture of the welfare state in Western Europe from an international perspective. With chapters covering Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, the book explores the complex role played by architecture in the formation and development of the welfare state in both theory and practice. Themes include: the role of the built environment in the welfare state as a political project the colonial dimension of European welfare state architecture and its ‘export’ to Africa and Asia the role of welfare state projects in promoting consumer culture and economic growth the picture of the collective produced by welfare state architecture the role of architectural innovation in the welfare state the role of the architect, as opposed to construction companies and others, in determining what was built the relationship between architectural and social theory the role of internal institutional critique and the counterculture. Contributors include: Tom Avermaete, Eve Blau, Nicholas Bullock, Miles Glendinning, Janina Gosseye, Hilde Heynen, Caroline Maniaque-Benton, Helena Mattsson, Luca Molinari, Simon Pepper, Michelle Provoost, Lukasz Stanek, Mark Swenarton, Florian Urban and Dirk van den Heuvel.

Download or read book Social Housing in Europe written by Kathleen Scanlon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-09-29 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All countries aim to improve housing conditions for their citizens but many have been forced by the financial crisis to reduce government expenditure. Social housing is at the crux of this tension. Policy-makers, practitioners and academics want to know how other systems work and are looking for something written in clear English, where there is a depth of understanding of the literature in other languages and direct contributions from country experts across the continent. Social Housing in Europe combines a comparative overview of European social housing written by scholars with in-depth chapters written by international housing experts. The countries covered include Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, The Netherlands and Sweden, with a further chapter devoted to CEE countries other than Hungary. The book provides an up-to-date international comparison of social housing policy and practice. It offers an analysis of how the social housing system currently works in each country, supported by relevant statistics. It identifies European trends in the sector, and opportunities for innovation and improvement. These country-specific chapters are accompanied by topical thematic chapters dealing with subjects such as the role of social housing in urban regeneration, the privatisation of social housing, financing models, and the impact of European Union state aid regulations on the definitions and financing of social housing.

Download or read book Transforming Social Housing written by Sasha Tsenkova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent global crisis exposed vulnerabilities of housing markets pointing to the need to build resilience through better policy tools and sustainable provision of social housing. In the context of fiscal austerity, social housing is affected by changing politics, privatization and concentration of urban poverty. Transforming Social Housing: International Perspectives explores the differences and similarities in housing policies and practices by focusing on social housing institutions and their ability to influence affordability and quality of housing. The focus is on private and not-for-profit provision in mixed-income developments supported through partnerships and a mix of policy instruments. The book brings together contributions by leading scholars on key debates affecting social housing in cities around the world. The international perspectives provide an interdisciplinary, robust overview of complex processes of change affecting people, places and homes. It is particularly well suited for students, scholars, policymakers and professionals interested in housing, urban planning and public policy. The chapters in this book were originally published in various issues of the Urban Research & Practice journal.

Download or read book Hovels to High Rise written by Anne Power and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1993, this book traces how governments in France, Germany, Britain, Denmark and Ireland became involved in replacing industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high-density concrete estates. As the book considers each country’s housing history and traditions, and analyses the contrasting structures and systems, it finds convergence of problems in the growing tensions of their most disadvantaged communities. The book underlines the continuing drift towards deeper polarization, an issue which has become ever more important in the multi-lingual, ethnically diverse urban societies of the 21st Century. The book’s detailed coverage of the historical, political and social changes relating to housing within the various countries make it an important text for students and practitioners concerned with housing, urban affairs, social policy and administration.

Download or read book Analytical Theory of Democracy written by Andranik Tangian and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book operationalizes the idea of political representation, which is fundamental to modern democracies. Both individual representatives and representative bodies are evaluated using the indices of popularity (the average percentage of the population whose opinion is represented on topical policy issues) and universality (the percentage of issues for which the prevailing public opinion is represented). Viewed as objective functions, these indices can aid in the search for optimal representatives and representative bodies. By replacing the consistency analysis of the social choice axioms with the calculation of the best compromises, the paradoxes of social choice, such as those of Condorcet and Arrow, can be overcome. These indices also form the core of an alternative election method that is aimed at enhancing policy representation — a recent concept of political representation, which is not supported by the conventional voting systems shaped during the American and French Revolutions. This method is tested in a series of election experiments that focus on implementation details. In addition, non-societal applications such as MCDM, finance or traffic control are considered, where the objects that reflect the properties or behavior of other objects are regarded as their “representatives.” Given its scope, the book will appeal to political scientists, economists and operations researchers, as well as to politicians interested in improving democratic performance and electoral system design.

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Housing Policy Home Ownership written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 6268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published between 1961 and 1994, the volumes in this set sit equally comfortably in sociology and geography as well as housing studies. Even though they were published some years ago, their content continues to offer critical engagement with an evolving policy agenda which is even more important in a time of crisis and deeper polarization both nationally and globally as a result of the pandemic. They: Provide a comprehensive political-economic analysis of the historical origins and 20th Century experience of 19th and 20th Century housing tenure in the UK, France, Germany, the former USSR, Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary, Puerto Rico and the USA. Discuss landlord-tenant relations and the neglect of particular disadvantaged groups such as the elderly, the single homeless and those in low income groups Examine the balance between rehabilitation and redevelopment and the rise and fall of the high-rise flat Cover issues such as rent, rent controls, subsidies and urban renewal Look at the implications of selling council houses and evaluate the impact of the growth of home ownership in the UK Address the practical and political difficulties of devising measures which meet policy objectives.

Download or read book The Transparent State written by Deborah Ascher Barnstone and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do open societies need transparent architecture? Does transparent architecture help make an open society? This book examines German culture's on-going relationship with Transparency, a relationship which culminates in the new Reichstag building.