Topographies of class : modern architecture and mass society in Weimar Berlin

Topographies of class : modern architecture and mass society in Weimar Berlin / Sabine Hake.

Approaching Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse and class analysis, the author examines the way in which architectural projects, debates, and representations in literature, photography, and film played a role in establishing the terms under which contemporaries made s...

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Main Author: Hake, Sabine, 1956-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]
Series:Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Architecture > Germany > Berlin > History.
Mass society.
Architecture > Germany > History > 20th century.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > General.
Architecture
Buildings
Intellectual life
Mass society
Massengesellschaft
Architektur
Architecture > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
Arkitektur > Tyskland > Berlin > historia > 1918-1933 (Weimarrepubliken)
Samhällsplanering > Tyskland > Berlin.
Berlin (Germany) > History > 1918-1945.
Berlin (Germany) > Buildings, structures, etc.
Berlin (Germany) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Germany
Germany > Berlin
Berlin
Berlin > byggnader.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Setting the scene : Weimar Berlin, circa 1920
  • Mapping Weimar society : on masses, classes, and white-collar workers
  • Organizing the modern masses : new building in Weimar Berlin
  • Walking in the metropolis : the city texts of Franz Hessel and Siegfried Kracauer
  • Picturing the new Berlin : photography, architecture, and modern mass society
  • Deconstructing modern subjectivity : on Berlin Alexanderplatz
  • Reconstructing modern subjectivity : on Berlin, symphony of the big city.

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