Remaking Berlin: A History of the City through Infrastructure, 1920-2020
Remaking Berlin: A History of the City through Infrastructure, 1920-2020 (Infrastructures) by Timothy Moss
English | September 29, 2020 | ASIN: B084V7T9KL, ISBN: 0262539772 | AZW3 | 443 pages | 9.5 MB
English | September 29, 2020 | ASIN: B084V7T9KL, ISBN: 0262539772 | AZW3 | 443 pages | 9.5 MB
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.