David Frisby

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"Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as one of the world's great cities and those who observed this process: architects, city planners, sociologists, political theorists, historians, cultural critics, novelists, essayists, and journalists. Divided into nineteen sections, each prefaced by an introductory essay, the account unfolds chronologically, with the particular structural concerns of the moment addressed in sequence--be they department stores in 1900, housing in the 1920s, or parade grounds in 1940. Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 not only details the construction of Berlin, but explores homes and workplaces, public spaces, circulation, commerce, and leisure in the German metropolis as seen through the eyes of all social classes, from the humblest inhabitants of the city slums, to the great visionaries of the modern city, and the demented dictator resolved to remodel Berlin as Germania"-- "Metropolis Berlin 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as one of the world's great cities and those who commented on this process: architects, city planners, sociologists, political theorists, historians, cultural critics, novelists, essayists, and journalists. Divided into eighteen sections, each prefaced by an introductory essay, the account unfolds chronologically, with the particular structural concerns of the moment addressed in sequence--be they department stores in 1900, housing in the 1920s, or parade grounds in 1940. Metropolis Berlin 1880-1940 not only details the construction of Berlin but also explores homes and workplaces, public spaces, circulation, commerce, and leisure in the German metropolis as seen through the eyes of all social classes, from the humblest inhabitants of the city slums, to the great visionaries of the modern city, and the demented dictator resolved to remodel Berlin as Germania"--

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Preface: All of the more important articles and prefaces written by Robert E Park are now available in the series of volumes of which this is the third. Certain phrases that recur in the following pages, human conduct, moral order, social order, moral world, moral career, suggest a possible theme of the essays in this volume. If animal behavior is talked of it is to distinguish human moral conduct from it. If the quasi-biological, ecological processes are mentioned, it is as underpinning for the more distinctly social processes. The lively, even violent, forms of collective behavior-crowds, sects, revivals, strikes, booms, crazes, fads and fashions are in Park's system the elementary forms of social interaction. News, in its various forms, is part of the communication which allows social interaction on a larger scale; public opinion is both a product of such interaction and the basis for new collective actions. Society, in its various forms is the on-going, somewhat ordered interaction of men; men who have not merely instincts, but goals to be achieved self conceptions to be lived up to, status to be fought for. In the course of talking about society, Park commented on the work of many others who have written about the same subject. The reader will find reference to many authors not commonly cited in the sociology of today. Park had little reverence for established departmental lines. In fact, he comments on the number of important sociological works not written by sociologists; and in a paper in this volume. At the beginning of each chapter credit is given to its original publisher.