Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914

by Brian Ladd

This unique contribution to social and urban history describes the struggle of prosperous German bourgeois leaders to bring order to their rapidly growing cities during the tumultuous age of industrial expansion in the decades before World War I. Brian Ladd sets the emerging theory and practice of city planning in the context of debates about the nature of the modern city and the possibility of improving society by regulating its physical environment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674931157
• ISBN13: 9780674931152
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"