ISBN:
9780857453471
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (277 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Small Town and Village in Bavaria : The Passing of a Way of Life
DDC:
307.76/209433
Keywords:
Social change ; Germany ; Bavaria ; History ; 21st century
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Sociology, Rural ; Germany ; Bavaria ; Case studies
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Villages ; Germany ; Bavaria ; Case studies
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Fallstudiensammlung
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Online-Publikation
Abstract:
At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3000, thereby reducing the number of local governments in Bavaria from more than 7,000 to less than 2,000. Based on interviews, surveys, and statistical research, this study chronicles fifteen communities and their challenges, developments, and social changes from post-1945 up to the present. While this book
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Changing Villages and Small Places in Bavaria; Chapter 2 - The Small-town or Village Community; Chapter 3 - Planning Local Territorial Reform; Chapter 4 - The Implementation of the Reform; Chapter 5 - No Town is an Island; Chapter 6 - Conclusion; Appendix - Tables; Select Bibliography and Government Documents; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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