Germany''s Urban Frontiers : Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
History of the Urban Environment
ISBN-10
0822946416
ISBN-13
9780822946410
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint
University of Pittsburgh Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 29th, 2020
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
550 grams
Dimensions
16.00 x 23.70 x 2.90 cms
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Examines how 19th-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped German urban peripheries.
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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