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Architecture
Author_Joshua Hagen
Author_Robert C. Ostergren
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Concentration camps
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Fuhrer Cities
Genocide
Hitler
Industrial Complex
National Socialism
Nazi Germany
Statism
Totalitarianism
Product details
- ISBN 9780742567979
- Weight: 866g
- Dimensions: 161 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 19 Aug 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This richly illustrated book details the wide-ranging construction and urban planning projects launched across Germany after the Nazi Party seized power. Hagen and Ostergren show that it was far more than just an architectural and stylistic enterprise. Instead, it was a series of interrelated programs intended to thoroughly reorganize Germany’s economic, cultural, and political landscapes. The authors trace the specific roles of its component parts—the monumental redevelopment and cleansing of cities; the construction of new civic landscapes for educational, athletic, and leisure pursuits; the improvement of transportation, industrial, and military infrastructures; and the creation of networked landscapes of fear, slave labor, and genocide. Through distinctive examples, the book draws out the ways in which combinations of place, space, and architecture were utilized as a cumulative means of undergirding the regime and its ambitions. The authors consider how these reshaped spaces were actually experienced and perceived by ordinary Germans, and in some cases the world at large, as the regime intentionally built a new Nazi Germany.
Joshua Hagen is dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Robert C. Ostergren is professor emeritus in the Department of Geography at University of Wisconsin–Madison.
