{"product_id":"remaking-berlin-timothy-moss-9780262539777","title":"Remaking Berlin: A History of the City Through Infrastructure, 1920-2020","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn examination of Berlin's turbulent history through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eRemaking Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e, Timothy Moss takes a novel perspective on Berlin's turbulent twentieth-century history, examining it through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. He shows that, through a century of changing regimes, geopolitical interventions, and socioeconomic volatility, Berlin's networked urban infrastructures have acted as medium and manifestation of municipal, national, and international politics and policies. Moss traces the coevolution of Berlin and its infrastructure systems from the creation of Greater Berlin in 1920 to remunicipalization of services in 2020, encompassing democratic, fascist, and socialist regimes. Throughout, he explores the tension between obduracy and change in Berlin's infrastructures. Examining the choices made by utility managers, politicians, and government officials, Moss makes visible systems that we often take for granted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoss describes the reorganization of infrastructure systems to meet the needs of a new unitary city after Berlin's incorporation in 1920, and how utilities delivered on political promises; the insidious embedding of repression, racism, autarky, and militarization within the networked city under the Nazis; and the resilience of Berlin's infrastructures during wartime and political division. He examines East Berlin's socialist infrastructural ideal (and its under-resourced systems), West Berlin's insular existence (and its aspirations of system autarky), and reunified Berlin's privatization of utilities (subsequently challenged by social movements). Taking Berlin as an exemplar, Moss's account will inspire researchers to take a fresh look at urban infrastructure histories, offering new ways of conceptualizing the multiple temporalities and spatialities of the networked city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Timothy Moss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262539772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262539777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 7.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Timothy Moss","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086453780735,"sku":"9780262539777","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c901b496-54d4-434f-a716-3d08cb7559df.jpg?v=1769094767","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/remaking-berlin-timothy-moss-9780262539777","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}