Remaking Berlin: A History of the City through Infrastructure, 1920-2020

Remaking Berlin: A History of the City through Infrastructure, 1920-2020
ISBN-10
0262360896
ISBN-13
9780262360890
Category
History
Pages
448
Language
English
Published
2020-09-29
Publisher
MIT Press
Author
Timothy Moss

Description

An examination of Berlin's turbulent history through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. In Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss takes a novel perspective on Berlin's turbulent twentieth-century history, examining it through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. He shows that, through a century of changing regimes, geopolitical interventions, and socioeconomic volatility, Berlin's networked urban infrastructures have acted as medium and manifestation of municipal, national, and international politics and policies. Moss traces the coevolution of Berlin and its infrastructure systems from the creation of Greater Berlin in 1920 to remunicipalization of services in 2020, encompassing democratic, fascist, and socialist regimes.

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