Introduction Transnationalism and the German City

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Includes index. Machine generated contents note: pt. I Contested Urban Publics -- One. Enlightenment in the European City: Rethinking German Urbanism and the Public Sphere / Daniel Purdy -- Two. Posen or Poznan, Rathaus or Ratusz: Nationalizing the Cityscape in the German-Polish Borderland / Elizabeth A. Drummond -- Three. Inclusion and Segregation in Berlin, the "Social City" / Stephan Lanz -- Four. "Wild Barbecuing": Urban Citizenship and the Politics of Transnationality in Berlin's Tiergarten / Bettina Stoetzer -- pt. II Crossing Boundaries in Modern German Planning -- Five. Transnational Dimensions of German Anti-Modern Modernism: Ernst May in Breslau / Deborah Ascher Barnstone -- Six. Was There an Ideal Socialist City? Socialist New Towns as Modern Dreamscapes / Rosemary Wakeman -- Seven. Housing as Transnational Provocation in Cold War Berlin / Greg Castillo -- Eight. Transatlantic Crossings of Planning Ideas: The Neighborhood Unit in the USA, UK, and Germany / Dirk Schubert. pt. III City Cultures and the German Transnational Imaginary -- Nine. Princes and Fools, Parades and Wild Women: Creating, Performing, and Preserving Urban Identity through Carnival in Cologne and Basel / Jeffry M. Diefendorf -- Ten. The Local, the National -- and the Transnational? Spatial Dimensions in Hamburg's Memory of World War I during the Weimar Republic / Janina Fuge -- Eleven. From the American West to West Berlin: Wim Wenders, Border Crossings, and the Transnational Imaginary / Nicole Huber and Ralph Stern -- pt. IV German Urban Heritage for a Transnational Era -- Twelve. Post-Postwar Re-Construction of a Destroyed Heimat: Perspectives on German Discourse and Practice / Grischa F. Bertram and Friedhelm Fischer -- Thirteen. Berlin's Museum Island: Marketing the German National Past in the Age of Globalization / Tracy Graves -- Fourteen. The Historic Preservation Fallacy? Transnational Culture, Urban Identity, and Monumental Architecture in Berlin and Dresden / John V. Maciuika.