ISBN:
9780822987857
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (260 pages)
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Series Statement:
Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Poling, Kristin Germany's urban frontiers
DDC:
307.760943/09034
Keywords:
Geschichte 1800-1900
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Urbanization History 19th century
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Rural-urban migration History 19th century
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Cities and towns History 19th century
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City and town life History 19th century
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City planning History 19th century
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Verstädterung
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Städtebau
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Stadtplanung
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Stadtgestaltung
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Stadtbild
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Electronic books
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Germany History 1789-1900
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Deutschland
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Deutschland
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Verstädterung
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Städtebau
;
Stadtplanung
;
Stadtgestaltung
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Stadtbild
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Geschichte 1800-1900
Abstract:
Chapter 1. Picturing the city: urban panoramas on the Leipzig Ring -- Chapter 2. Conquering the wasteland: Oldenburg's urban empire in the northwestern moors -- Chapter 3. Taxing the urban border: the persistence of Prussian city walls -- Chapter 4. The shantytown frontier: city planning and wild settlement on Berlin's urban periphery -- Chapter 5. Urban histories and national futures in the German empire.
Abstract:
"In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of Germany's many growing cities. Germany's Urban Frontiers is the first book to examine how nineteenth-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped the changing spaces of German urban peripheries as the walls and boundaries that had so long defined central European cities disappeared. Through a series of local case studies including Leipzig, Oldenburg, and Berlin, Kristin Poling reveals how Germans on the edge of the city confronted not only questions of planning and control, but also their own histories and futures as a community"--
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