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 subtitle to which his book closely hews. His topic is urban planning and government as it developed in response to the crisis of Berlin’s explosive growth, but his goal is to explain a broader transition “from liberalism to corporatism.” The expanding scope of urban planning sheds light on a capitalist economy increasingly directed by state intervention. The transformation of urban planning and municipal governance illustrates the transition from the nineteenth-century municipal liberalism identified by James Sheehan to a new corporatism that Charles Maier found in the Weimar...

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