Topographies of Class: Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin, Sabine Hake, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008

The Weimar-Republic, and the modernist architecture and planning that was born there, is still a contested place, from whence liberals, reactionaries and Marxists can all trace their lineage. Sabine Hake’s Topographies of Class attempts to clarify this contestation, through an interdisciplinary stud...

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