Exploring the social and political meanings attributed to property - specifically home ownership - this study looks at how these changed during the course of th

From the middle of the nineteenth century, most European cities experienced a period of unrivalled growth and development that forever changed not only their ph

Capitalist private property in land and buildings – real estate – is the ground of modern cities, materially, politically, and economically. It is foundatio

In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most likely to encounter frontier landscapes

Urban Transformations is a theoretical and empirical account of the changing nature of urbanization in Germany. Where city planners and municipal administration