In the wake of war : the reconstruction of German cities after World War II / Jeffry M. Diefendorf
1993, 1st edition. New York : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426151
ISBN: 0195072197
Physical description; xx, 403 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-392) and index. Contents; Bombs and Rubble: The Air War and Its Consequences -- The War from the Air -- Cities of Rubble -- Work Amidst the Rubble -- Rubble Clearance and the Repair of Utilities -- Material for Rebuilding -- Labor in the Construction Industry -- Legal and Illegal Building -- The Face of Reconstruction: Architectural Style -- The Bauhaus and Deutscher Werkbund -- Heimatschutz and Traditional Architecture -- Nazi Architecture and Neoclassicism -- Postwar Architecture -- The Face of Reconstruction: The Role of Historic Preservation -- Principles of Historic Preservation -- Modernizing Cities -- Determined Preservationism -- Modernization and Preservation -- The Housing Problem -- Cooperative Housing -- Housing Policy under the National Socialists -- Postwar Housing -- Town Planning to 1945 -- Planning Traditions before 1933 -- Urban Planning during the Third Reich -- The Representative Cities Program -- From Representative Cities to Reconstruction -- Reconstruction Planning -- Planning and Planners after 1945 -- The Postwar Planners -- Planning Models -- The Extremes -- Pragmatic Planning -- Traffic Planning -- Reconstruction and Building Law -- The Framework: Building Law and Proposals for Reform to 1945 -- The Postwar Debate: Defining the Scope of a New Building Law -- Opposition to the New Laws: Property Rights and Politics -- The Strugle for a National Building Law -- Politics, Democracy, and the Law -- Organizing Reconstruction -- The Role of the Allied Occupation Governments -- State and National Reconstruction Agencies. Subjects; Reconstruction (1939-1951). 1900-1999. Geschichte 1945-1960. Urban renewal Germany History 20th century. City planning Germany History 20th century. Reconstruction (1939-1951) Germany.
Price: €195.00