Transnationalism and the German City

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction Transnationalism and the German City....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Enlightenment in the European City: Rethinking German Urbanism and the Public Sphere....Pages 13-35
Posen or Poznań, Rathaus or Ratusz: Nationalizing the Cityscape in the German-Polish Borderland....Pages 37-53
Inclusion and Segregation in Berlin, the “Social City”....Pages 55-71
“Wild Barbecuing”: Urban Citizenship and the Politics of Transnationality in Berlin’s Tiergarten....Pages 73-86
Front Matter....Pages 87-87
Transnational Dimensions of German Anti-Modern Modernism: Ernst May in Breslau....Pages 89-104
Was There an Ideal Socialist City? Socialist New Towns as Modern Dreamscapes....Pages 105-124
Housing as Transnational Provocation in Cold War Berlin....Pages 125-139
Transatlantic Crossings of Planning Ideas: The Neighborhood Unit in the USA, UK, and Germany....Pages 141-158
Front Matter....Pages 159-159
Princes and Fools, Parades and Wild Women: Creating, Performing, and Preserving Urban Identity through Carnival in Cologne and Basel....Pages 161-172
The Local, the National—and the Transnational? Spatial Dimensions in Hamburg’s Memory of World War I during the Weimar Republic....Pages 173-185
From the American West to West Berlin: Wim Wenders, Border Crossings, and the Transnational Imaginary....Pages 187-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Post-Postwar Re-Construction of a Destroyed Heimat: Perspectives on German Discourse and Practice....Pages 207-221
Berlin’s Museum Island: Marketing the German National Past in the Age of Globalization....Pages 223-237
The Historic Preservation Fallacy? Transnational Culture, Urban Identity, and Monumental Architecture in Berlin and Dresden....Pages 239-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-277