{"product_id":"grounding-berlin-timothy-moss-9780822948322","title":"Grounding Berlin: Ecologies of a Technopolis, 1871 to the Present","description":"This collection explores the pioneering contribution of Berlin to urban technology and urban ecology in Europe and around the world over the past 150 years. Following the 1871 unification of Germany, Berlin experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization. Providing the necessary energy, water, waste removal, and land required massive interventions in the city and its surrounding region. As Berlin transformed nature in the name of urban modernism, it earned a global reputation as a technopolis. This reputation for innovation in urban technology was fanned in the Weimar Republic and revived--in very different ways--in West Berlin to cope with political isolation after 1949, to embrace a sustainability agenda in the early years of the reunified city, and to decarbonize the city today. Berlin is an instructive case study to understand the ambitions and tensions involved in transforming environments through technology across highly diverse political regimes. More broadly, the book advances envirotech history as a productive lens on shifting relationships between society, nature, and technology in cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Moss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082294832X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822948322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pittsburgh Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/10\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Timothy Moss","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46334391976191,"sku":"9780822948322","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b012adf2-5b0b-4c15-855d-7444c58d91d3.jpg?v=1731466721","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/grounding-berlin-timothy-moss-9780822948322","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}