Brian Ladd
Biographic Data
| ID | 518019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Ladd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Ladd |
| SIGNATURE | LADD B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0445-7775 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Globalizing Automobilism
Extreme arguments
Autonorama
Reviewed by: Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving by Peter Norton Brian Ladd (bio) Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving By Peter Norton. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2021. Pp. 310. Implausible claims about the capabilities and technological maturity of safe, fast, and automated cars are neither new nor surprising, according to Peter Norton. He traces the rise and fall of these claims in the United States over ne…
The Stifled Renaissance of Urbanity
Concern with the decay or demolition of inner cities was an underappreciated factor contributing to the discontent preceding the revolutions of 1989 in east-central Europe. Although there has been some scholarly work on the topic, particularly on the German Democratic Republic (GDR), multinational studies are lacking. This examination of parallel developments in the GDR and Czechoslovakia identifies similar trajectories of discontent and activism…
Introduction to Special Section
M olly L oberg . The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin
Because twentieth-century Berlin epitomizes sharp and dramatic change in urban development and governance, it attracts historians seeking to chart major transformations compressed into brief time periods. For Parker Daly Everett, Berlin is exemplary rather than unique. In Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871–1933, Everett delves into its history in order to support the broad thesis encapsulated in the subt…
Ruth A. Miller. Snarl
What can we learn from traffic jams, like the notorious week-long Chinese blockage in 2010? Ruth A. Miller leaps beyond the obvious points that expectations of mobility can be stymied and that transportation networks are built on unreliable assumptions about human behavior. Her argument is far broader and more abstract: the traffic jam is “democratic politics as usual” (p. 157) and “it makes life both materially and legally possible” (p. 158). It…
Berlin - Washington, 1800–2000
This 2006 collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation-states in the modern era. Each of the cities has assumed, at times, a mythical quality and they have been seen as collective symbols, with ambitions and contradictions that mirror the nation-states they represent. Such issues such stand in the centre of this volume. The authors ask what these two capitals have …
East Berlin Political Monuments in the Late German Democratic Republic
It has long been customary to characterize vanished states and their leaders by examining the monuments they built. To understand the recently defunct socialist regimes of eastern Europe, historians have available a wide range of evidence, lessening the need to generalize from mute documents of stone. We also have a wealth of evidence with which to reconstruct the decision-making processes behind major construction projects, enabling us better to…
Socialist Planning and the Rediscovery of the Old City in the German Democratic Republic
Envisioning Power
Book Review| July 01 2001 Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis; Reading the Holocaust By Eric R. Wolf. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xi + 339 pp., preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.)By Inga Clendinnen. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 227 pp., map, photographs, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.) Louise M. Burkhart; Louise M. Burkhart Se…
The Ghosts of Berlin
The Ghosts of Berlin
Städtische Interessenpolitik
Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914
Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914
Introduction 1. German Cities in the Limelight 2. Public Health and Public Works 3. City Extension Planning 4. Urban Aesthetics and the New Planning of the 1890's 5. The Housing Question and the Social Question 6. Growth, Speculation, and Comprehensive Planning 7. Civic Pride, Municipal Enterprise, and the Urban Environment Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Public Baths and Civic Improvement in Nineteenth-Century German Cities
East Berlin Political Monuments in the Late German Democratic Republic
It has long been customary to characterize vanished states and their leaders by examining the monuments they built. To understand the recently defunct socialist regimes of eastern Europe, historians have available a wide range of evidence, lessening the need to generalize from mute documents of stone. We also have a wealth of evidence with which to reconstruct the decision-making processes behind major construction projects, enabling us better to…
Envisioning Power
Book Review| July 01 2001 Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis; Reading the Holocaust By Eric R. Wolf. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xi + 339 pp., preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.)By Inga Clendinnen. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 227 pp., map, photographs, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.) Louise M. Burkhart; Louise M. Burkhart Se…
Public Baths and Civic Improvement in Nineteenth-Century German Cities
Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914
Introduction 1. German Cities in the Limelight 2. Public Health and Public Works 3. City Extension Planning 4. Urban Aesthetics and the New Planning of the 1890's 5. The Housing Question and the Social Question 6. Growth, Speculation, and Comprehensive Planning 7. Civic Pride, Municipal Enterprise, and the Urban Environment Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914
Städtische Interessenpolitik
The Ghosts of Berlin
The Ghosts of Berlin
Socialist Planning and the Rediscovery of the Old City in the German Democratic Republic
Envisioning Power
Book Review| July 01 2001 Envisioning Power: Ideologies of Dominance and Crisis; Reading the Holocaust By Eric R. Wolf. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. xi + 339 pp., preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.)By Inga Clendinnen. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. x + 227 pp., map, photographs, bibliography, index. $49.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.) Louise M. Burkhart; Louise M. Burkhart Se…
East Berlin Political Monuments in the Late German Democratic Republic
It has long been customary to characterize vanished states and their leaders by examining the monuments they built. To understand the recently defunct socialist regimes of eastern Europe, historians have available a wide range of evidence, lessening the need to generalize from mute documents of stone. We also have a wealth of evidence with which to reconstruct the decision-making processes behind major construction projects, enabling us better to…
Berlin - Washington, 1800–2000
This 2006 collection examines the urban spaces of Berlin and Washington and provides a comparative cultural history of two eminent nation-states in the modern era. Each of the cities has assumed, at times, a mythical quality and they have been seen as collective symbols, with ambitions and contradictions that mirror the nation-states they represent. Such issues such stand in the centre of this volume. The authors ask what these two capitals have …
Ruth A. Miller. Snarl
What can we learn from traffic jams, like the notorious week-long Chinese blockage in 2010? Ruth A. Miller leaps beyond the obvious points that expectations of mobility can be stymied and that transportation networks are built on unreliable assumptions about human behavior. Her argument is far broader and more abstract: the traffic jam is “democratic politics as usual” (p. 157) and “it makes life both materially and legally possible” (p. 158). It…
M olly L oberg . The Struggle for the Streets of Berlin
Because twentieth-century Berlin epitomizes sharp and dramatic change in urban development and governance, it attracts historians seeking to chart major transformations compressed into brief time periods. For Parker Daly Everett, Berlin is exemplary rather than unique. In Urban Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism in Greater Berlin, 1871–1933, Everett delves into its history in order to support the broad thesis encapsulated in the subt…
The Stifled Renaissance of Urbanity
Concern with the decay or demolition of inner cities was an underappreciated factor contributing to the discontent preceding the revolutions of 1989 in east-central Europe. Although there has been some scholarly work on the topic, particularly on the German Democratic Republic (GDR), multinational studies are lacking. This examination of parallel developments in the GDR and Czechoslovakia identifies similar trajectories of discontent and activism…
Introduction to Special Section
Extreme arguments
Autonorama
Reviewed by: Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving by Peter Norton Brian Ladd (bio) Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving By Peter Norton. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2021. Pp. 310. Implausible claims about the capabilities and technological maturity of safe, fast, and automated cars are neither new nor surprising, according to Peter Norton. He traces the rise and fall of these claims in the United States over ne…
Globalizing Automobilism
Political science (15 works) · History (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · European history and politics (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Economic history (5 works) · German (5 works)