Timothy Moss - Remaking Berlin: A History of the City Through Infrastructure, 1920-2020

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Timothy Moss, Remaking Berlin: A History of the City through Infrastructure, 19202020

Remaking Berlin

A History of the City through Infrastructure, 19202020

Timothy Moss

The MIT Press

Cambridge, Massachusetts

London, England

2020 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Names: Moss, Timothy, 1959 author.

Title: Remaking Berlin : a history of the city through infrastructure, 19202020 / Timothy Moss.

Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] | Series: Infrastructures series | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: The first carefully researched historical analysis of the co-evolution of Berlin and its infrastructure servicesProvided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020000803 | ISBN 9780262539777 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Berlin (Germany)History. | Berlin (Germany)Politics and government. | Berlin (Germany)Social conditions20th century. | Berlin (Germany)Social conditions21st century. | Public worksGermanyBerlinHistory.

Classification: LCC DD879 .M67 2020 | DDC 943/.155087dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020000803

d_r0

To Uli

in deepest gratitude

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Abbreviations