Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• DAVID FRISBY
• Gyan Prakash
• Kevin M. Kruse

Titel

Streets, Imaginaries, and Modernity: Vienna Is Not Berlin

Ist Teil von

• The Spaces of the Modern City, 2021, p.21

Ort / Verlag

Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This essay is located within a broader comparative-historical analysis of urban spaces, contested sites, and cultural formations in European metropolitan modernity, initially of Berlin and Vienna from around 1880 to 1914. Focus is on the sociopolitical and cultural contexts of the production of urban spaces generated by city planners and architects. Looking back over the nineteenth century, Cornelius Gurlitt identified two modern urban forms: Haussmann’s Parisian boulevards and Vienna’s Ringstrasse.¹ Yet other major imperial capitals such as Berlin or London do not fit neatly into either of these forms. Berlin’s dramatic expansion after 1870 was possible because the city could