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| Introduction | |
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| Setting the Scene: Weimar Berlin, circa 1920 | |
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| Historical Legacies and Reformist Beginnings | |
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| Martin Wagner and the New Berlin | |
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| Case Study: Potsdamer Platz | |
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| Mapping Weimar Society: On Masses, Classes, and White-Collar Workers | |
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| The Rise of the White-Collar Workers | |
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| Weimar Berlin, the Quintessential Modern Metropolis | |
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| Mass Discourse and White-Collar Culture | |
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| White-Collar Culture and the New Objectivity | |
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| Organizing the Modern Masses: New Building in Weimar Berlin | |
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| Constructing the New Berlin | |
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| The Project of New Building | |
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| Erich Mendelsohn and the Functionalist Aesthetic | |
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| Ludwig Hilberseimer and the High-Rise City | |
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| Walking in the Metropolis: The City Texts of Franz Hessel and Siegfried Kracauer | |
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| Case Study: The Kurfurstendamm | |
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| Hessel's Urban Flaneries | |
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| Kracauer's Urban Hieroglyphics | |
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| Picturing the New Berlin: Photography, Architecture, and Modern Mass Society | |
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| Architecture and Photography in Weimar Culture | |
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| Case Study: Mossehaus | |
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| Images of Alexanderplatz | |
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| Deconstructing Modern Subjectivity: On Berlin Alexanderplatz | |
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| Case Study: Alexanderplatz | |
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| On the Streets with Franz Biberkopf | |
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| The City Novel and Weimar Literary Culture | |
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| Alfred Doblin and Berlin | |
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| Reconstructing Modern Subjectivity: On Berlin, Symphony of the Big City | |
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| A City Symphony in Five Movements | |
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| Walter Ruttmann and the City Film | |
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| The Spectacle of White-Collar Culture | |
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| Critical Reception and Filmic Reinterpretation | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index of Names | |
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| Index of Places | |
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| Index of Titles | |