‘Farmers on notice’: the threat faced by Weimar Berlin's garden colonies in the face of the city's Neues Bauen housing programme
2012; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 39; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0963926812000053
ISSN1469-8706
Autores Tópico(s)European history and politics
ResumoABSTRACT: The Neues Bauen programme of urban development in Weimar Germany is best known amongst English-speaking historians for its modern housing estates, including those built by Bruno Taut in Berlin. Less well known are the negative impacts of this programme, particularly the displacement of thousands of garden colonies from the outskirts of towns and cities, which were cleared to make way for new developments. This article focuses on the historical development of the garden colonies in Berlin, and the threat they faced from urban expansion during the Weimar era.
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