Remaking Berlin: A History of the City through Infrastructure, 1920–2020
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In recent years, many geographers—driven by the excitement around the infrastructural turn—have increasingly dedicated their attention to questions around urban infrastructure. Timothy Moss’s new book Remaking Berlin: A History of the City through Infrastructure, 1920–2020 contributes to this new avenue by investigating 100 years of infrastructural history in Berlin, Germany. Due to the turbulent history of the city, one shaped and reshaped by five different political regimes over the course of a century, Berlin’s infrastructure is a fascinating object of study. At the same time, it is also a gigantic academic endeavor to cover not just one infrastructural network, but the city’s water, gas, electricity, district heating, and sanitation infrastructure over this time period. Moss, however, does a good job by presenting a vivid and cross-sectoral historiography of Berlin’s sociotechnical assemblages. The result of a sixteen-year research process— as Moss reveals in the preface to the book—is a monograph that not only takes a fresh look at the fascinating parts of Berlin’s infrastructural history through archival research, but also motivates scholars in relevant disciplines to explore new methodological ways of understanding the complexity of the urban.
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Marian B. Jacobs
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- 2021
- Bahasa
- en
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- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1080/2325548X.2021.1921454
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- Open Access ✓