TY  - GEN
T1  - Germany's Urban Frontiers : Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City
T2  - History of the urban environment
A1  - Poling, Kristin
LA  - English
PP  - Pittsburgh
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1196283301
AB  - "In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes of new settlement and the taming of nature not in far-flung landscapes abroad, but on the edges of Germany's many growing cities. Germany's Urban Frontiers is the first book to examine how nineteenth-century notions of progress, community, and nature shaped the changing spaces of German urban peripheries as the walls and boundaries that had so long defined central European cities disappeared. Through a series of local case studies including Leipzig, Oldenburg, and Berlin, Kristin Poling reveals how Germans on the edge of the city confronted not only questions of planning and control, but also their own histories and futures as a community"--
CN  - HT384.G3 P65 2020
SN  - 0822987856
SN  - 9780822987857
SN  - 9780822946410
SN  - 0822946416
KW  - City planning : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - City and town life : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - Cities and towns : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - Rural-urban migration : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - Urbanization : Germany : History : 19th century.
KW  - Germany : History : 1789-1900.
KW  - Vie urbaine : Allemagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Villes : Allemagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Exode rural : Allemagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Urbanisation : Allemagne : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Allemagne : Histoire : 1789-1900.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - City and town life
KW  - City planning
KW  - Rural-urban migration
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Germany
KW  - 1789-1900
KW  - History
ER  -