Transnationalism and the German City [Hardcover]

Too often, scholars treat transnationalism as a conflict in which the local, regional, and national give way to globalized identity. As these varied studies of German cities show, though, the urban environment is actually a site of trans-localism that is not merely oppositional, but that adapts itself dialectically to the forces of globalization.PART I: CONTESTED GERMAN URBAN PUBLICS 1. Enlightenment in the European City: Rethinking German Urbanism and the Public Sphere; Daniel Purdy 2. Posen or Pozna?, Rathaus or Ratusz: Nationalizing the Cityscape in the German-Polish Borderland; Elizabeth Drummond 3. Inclusion and Segregation in Berlin, the Social City ; Stephan Lanz 4. Wild Barbecuing: Urban Citizenship and the Politics of (Trans-)Nationality in Berlin's Tiergarten; Bettina Stoetzer PART II: CROSSING BOUNDARIES IN MODERN GERMAN PLANNING 5. Transnational Dimensions of German Anti-Modern Modernism: Ernst May in Breslau; Deborah Ascher Barnstone 6. Was There an Ideal Socialist City? Socialist New Towns as Modern Dreamscape; Rosemary Wakeman 7. Housing as Transnational Provocation in Cold War Berlin; Greg Castillo 8. Transatlantic Crossings of Planning Ideas: The Neighborhood Unit in the USA, UK, and Germany; Dirk Schubert PART III: CITY CULTURES AND THE GERMAN (TRANS)NATIONAL IMAGINARY 9. Princes and Fools, Parades and Wild Women: Creating, Performing, and Preserving Urban Identity through Carnival in Cologne and Basel; Jeffry M. Diefendorf 10. The Local, the Nationaland the Transnational? Spatial Dimensions in Hamburg's Memory of World War I during the Weimar Republic; Janina Fuge 11. From the American West to West Berlin: Wim Wenders, Border Crossings, and the Transnational Imaginary; Nicole Huber and Ralph Stern PART IV: GERMAN URBAN HERITAGE FOR A (TRANS)NATIONAL ERA 12. Post-Post-War Re-Construction of a Destroyed Heimat: Perspectives on German Discourse and Practice; Grischa Bertram and Friedhelm Fischer 13. Berlin's Museum Island: Marketing National HerlÃ&