Driving Germany : the landscape of the German autobahn, 1930-1970 /: the landscape of the German autobahn, 1930-1970. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Thomas Zeller ; translated by Thomas Dunlap.
• Authors: Zeller, Thomas, 1966-
• Other Names: Dunlap, Thomas 1959- translator.
• Contents: Illustrations; Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Introduction: Germany and its Autobahn ; A growing overlap: history of technology and environmental history; Transportation history: the system of mobility Chapter 2. Landscape: the Dual Construction ; Physically altered landscapes; Culturally altered landscapes Chapter 3. The Historical Habitat of Landscape-Friendly Roads ; The autobahnen in environmental history; Building technological landscapes on the Rhine and Neckar; Reconciling nature and technology in the interwar period; Alwin Seifert and Fritz Todt: a biographic constellation Chapter 4. Planning the Autobahn before and after 1933 ; The failed autobahn project of the interwar period; Building the Nazi autobahn; The place of the autobahn in the Nazi dictatorship; Propagandizing the Reichsautobahn; German Technology (Deutsche Technik) and the Reichsautobahn Chapter 5. Conflicts over the Harmonious Road ; Finding a niche for landscape architects; Searching for a job description; Pitting landscape architects against civil engineers; Marginalizing conservation and spatial planning on the autobahn; Legalizing the exclusion of conservation Chapter 6. The Myth of the Green Autobahn ; Road alignment as a subject of controversy; "One drives faster than I can write": visual consumption on the Reichsautobahnen; The flora of the Nazi autobahn: contesting native plants; An ideology disintegrates: technology in the crisis of 1937; The value and cost of landscaping; The landscape advocates seek power beyond the autobahn Chapter 7. Reinterpretations: the West German Autobahn, 1949 to 1970 ; Autobahnen and the politics of the Bonn Republic; Building a federal highway system; The postwar trust in numbers; "An autobahn is not a hiking path": roadside plantings as safety devices; Roadside greenery as a bone of public contention Chapter 8. Conclusion Bibliography and Sources; Index
• Publisher Details: New York Oxford : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (297 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 333.720943/0904; Landscape protection -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Express highways -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Roadside improvement -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; National socialism and architecture; Landscape architecture -- Environmental aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century; Express highways; Landscape architecture -- Environmental aspects; Landscape protection; National socialism and architecture; Roadside improvement; Germany; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857452269; 0857452266
• Related ISBNs: 1845453093; 9781845453091
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-280) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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