The Making of the 20th Century City
Towards a Transnational Urban History of Japan and Europe
Edited by Rainer Liedtke Edited by Takahito Mori Edited by Katja Schmidtpott
Hardback (Published)
(March 2023)
ISBN: 9783515134088
6.69 x 9.49 inches
Price: $93.00
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Broadening the global perspective is high on the agenda for the current study of urban history. It is widely accepted in contemporary Japanese urban history that the prototype of the modern city was formed in the decades between the 1900s and the 1930s, when, against the background of accelerating urbanisation, the ideas of modernity in terms of regularity, functionality and rationality contributed to the establishment of mass culture and ultimately to social mobilisation for ‘total war’. These views coincide with those of European urban history. In order to understand this coincidence, the volume is divided into three parts: 1. Surveys of mutual historiographical perceptions, 2. Case studies of urban architecture, the garden city concept, concepts of urban disaster prevention, infrastructure building and organised urban leisure, 3. Observations from the perspective of European urban history. The combination will not only elucidate the process of making the 20th century Japanese city, but also help the reader to rethink the modern European city in a global context.
Broadening the global perspective is high on the agenda for the current study of urban history. It is widely accepted in contemporary Japanese urban history that the prototype of the modern city was formed in the decades between the 1900s and the 1930s, when, against the background of accelerating urbanisation, the ideas of modernity in terms of regularity, functionality and rationality contributed to the establishment of mass culture and ultimately to social mobilisation for ‘total war’. These views coincide with those of European urban history. In order to understand this coincidence, the volume is divided into three parts: 1. Surveys of mutual historiographical perceptions, 2. Case studies of urban architecture, the garden city concept, concepts of urban disaster prevention, infrastructure building and organised urban leisure, 3. Observations from the perspective of European urban history. The combination will not only elucidate the process of making the 20th century Japanese city, but also help the reader to rethink the modern European city in a global context.
- Edited by Rainer Liedtke
- Edited by Takahito Mori
- Edited by Katja Schmidtpott
Other Titles in this Series
Wiederaufbau europäischer Städte / Rebuilding European Cities
Rekonstruktionen, die Moderne und die lokale Identitätspolitik seit 1945 / Reconstructions, Modernity and the Local Politics of Identity Construction since 1945
Sozialistische Städte zwischen Herrschaft und Selbstbehauptung
Kommunalpolitik, Stadtplanung und Alltag in der DDR
Städtische Ehrungen zwischen Repräsentation und Partizipation
NS-Volksgemeinschaftspolitik in Hannover
Das Dienstfräulein auf dem Bahnhof
Frauen im öffentlichen Raum im Blick der Berliner Bahnhofsmission 1894–1939
“Schade, daß Beton nicht brennt …”
Planung, Partizipation und Protest in Philadelphia und Köln 1940–1990
Zwischen Stigma und Alltag
Nachbarschaft, Zivilgesellschaft und Image von Großsiedlungen in den 1970er Jahren
Von Armenpflegern und Fürsorgeschwestern
Kommunale Wohlfahrtspflege und Geschlechterpolitik in Berlin und Charlottenburg 1890 bis 1914
Bürgerschaftliches Engagement für den Umweltschutz in der Stadt seit 1970
Mainz – Wiesbaden – Freiburg im Breisgau
Lembergs “polnischen Charakter” sichern
Kommunalpolitik in einer multiethnischen Stadt der Habsburgermonarchie zwischen 1861/62 und 1914
Städtische öffentliche Räume / Urban public spaces
Planungen, Aneignungen, Aufstände 1945–2015 / Planning, appropriation, rebellions 1945–2015
Selling Berlin
Imagebildung und Stadtmarketing von der preussischen Residenz bis zur Bundeshauptstadt
Volume 6
Stadtverwaltung im Staatssozialismus
Kommunalpolitik und Wohnungswesen in der DDR am Beispiel Leipzigs (1957–1989)
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