Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- General Introduction -- Part One. Booming Metropolis -- 1. The Metropolitan Panorama -- 1. Jules Laforgue, Berlin: The Court and the City (1887) -- 2. Wilhelm Loesche, Berlin North (1890) -- 3. Mark Twain, The German Chicago (1892) -- 4. Heinrich Schackow, Berolina: A Metropolitan Aesthetic (1896) -- 5. Alfred Kerr, Berlin and London (1896) -- 6. Alfred Kerr, The Transformation of Potsdamer Strasse (1895, 1897) -- 7. Max Osborn, The Destruction of Berlin (1906) -- 8. Werner Sombart, Vienna (1907) -- 9. Robert Walser, Good Morning, Giantess! (1907) -- 10. August Endell, The Beauty of the Great City (1908) -- 11. Oscar Bie, Life Story of a Street (1908) -- 12. Robert Walser, Friedrichstrasse (1909) -- 13. Max Weber, Speech for a Discussion (1910) -- 14. Vorwärts, [Town Hall Tower Panorama] (1902) -- 15. Ernst Bloch, Berlin, Southern City (1915-16) -- 2. Building and Regulating the Metropolis -- 16. Theodor Goecke, Traffic Thoroughfares and Residential Streets (1893) -- 17. Rudolf Adickes, The Need for Spacious Building Programs in City Expansions and the Legal and Technical Means to Accomplish This (1895) -- 18. Vorwärts, [Deforestation around Berlin] (1908) -- 19. Die Bank, [Speculation in Tempelhof] (1910-11) -- 20. P. A. A. [Philip A. Ashworth], Berlin (1911) -- 21. Walter Lewitz, Architectural Notes on the Universal Urban Planning Exhibition, Berlin (1911) -- 22. Various authors, The Greater Berlin Competition 1910: The Prize-Winning Designs with Explanatory Report (1911) -- 23. Cornelius Gurlitt, Review of Greater Berlin and The Greater Berlin Competition 1910 (1911) -- 24. Sigmund Schott, The Agglomeration of Cities in the German Empire: 1871-1910 (1912) -- 25. Patrick Abercrombie, Berlin: Its Growth and Present State (1914) -- 3. Production, Commerce, and Consumption.

26. Georg Simmel, The Berlin Trade Exhibition (1896) -- 27. Albert Hoffmann, The Wertheim Department Store in Leipziger Strasse (1898) -- 28. Robert Walser, Aschinger's (1907) -- 29. Karl Scheffler, The Retail Establishment (1907) -- 30. Leo Colze, The Department Stores of Berlin (1908) -- 31. Erich Köhrer, Berlin Department Store: A Novel from the World City (1909) -- 32. Karl Scheffler, Peter Behrens (1913) -- 33. Karl Ernst Osthaus, The Display Window (1913) -- 34. Paul Westheim, Nordstern: The New Administration Building in Berlin-Schöneberg (1915) -- 4. Public Transport and Infrastructure -- 35. Anonymous, The Concourse of the Anhalter Station (1880) -- 36. Alfred Kerr, New and Beautiful!-Bülowstrasse? (1900) -- 37. Richard Peterson, The Traffic Problems Inherent in Large Cities and the Means of Solving Them (1908) -- 38. Karl Scheffler, The Elevated Railway and Aesthetics (1902) -- 39. August Endell, The Beauty of the Great City (1908) -- 40. Anonymous, The Northern Loop: A Journey on the Ring Railway (1913) -- 41. Peter Behrens, The Influence of Time and Space Utilization on Modern Design (1914) -- 42. Karl Ernst Osthaus, The Railway Station (1914) -- 5. The Proletarian City -- 43. Theodor Goecke, The Working-Class Tenement Block in Berlin (1890) -- 44. Otto von Leixner, Letter Eight: A Suburban Street in New Moabit (1891) -- 45. Heinrich Albrecht, The Working-Class Tenement Buildings of the Berlin Savings and Building Society (1898) -- 46. Alice Salomon, A Club for Young Working Women in Berlin (1903) -- 47. Werner Sombart, Domesticity (1906) -- 48. Albert Südekum, Impoverished Berlin Dwellings-Wedding (1908) -- 49. Clara Viebig, Our Daily Bread (1907) -- 50. Karl Scheffler, The Tenement Block (1911) -- 51. Käthe Kollwitz, Diary Entry, 16 April 1912 -- 52. Max Jacob, From Apartment House to Mass Apartment House (1912).

53. Victor Noack, Housing and Morality (1912) -- 6. Public Realm and Popular Culture -- 54. Paul Lindau, Unter den Linden (1892) -- 55. Anonymous, The New Prison for Berlin at Tegel (1900) -- 56. Alfred Kerr, In the New Reichstag (1900) -- 57. Freisinnige Zeitung, [A Military Parade] (1900) -- 58. Berliner Tageblatt, [A Sunday in Berlin] (1903) -- 59. Hans Ostwald, Berlin Coffeehouses (c. 1905) -- 60. Brüstlein, The Rudolf Virchow Hospital in Berlin (1907) -- 61. Jules Huret, Bruno Schmitz's "Rheingold" for Aschinger (1909) -- 62. Anonymous, New Buildings Planned for Museum Island, Berlin (1910) -- 63. Wilhelm Bode, Alfred Messel's Plans for the New Buildings of the Royal Museums in Berlin (1910) -- 64. Paul Westheim, Ludwig Hoffmann's School Buildings in Berlin (1911) -- 65. Max Wagenführ, The Admiral's Palace and Its Bathing Pools (1912) -- 66. Fritz Stahl (pseud. Siegfried Lilienthal), The Berlin City Hall (1912) -- 67. Else Lasker-Schüler, The Two White Benches on the Kurfürstendamm (1913) -- 68. Bruno Taut, The Problem of Building an Opera House (1914) -- 69. Anonymous [Joseph Adler?], The Opening of the Tauentzien Palace Café (1914) -- 7. The Bourgeois City -- 70. Theodor Fontane, The Treibel Villa (1892) -- 71. Alfred Kerr, Herr Sehring Builds a Theater Dream (1895) -- 72. Alfred Kerr, Up and Down the Avenues (1898) -- 73. Walther Rathenau, The Most Beautiful City in the World (1899) -- 74. Alfred Kerr, New Luxury, Old Squalor (1900) -- 75. Hermann Muthesius, The Modern Country Home (1905) -- 76. Edmund Edel, Berlin W. (1906) -- 77. Max Creutz, Charlottenburg Town Hall (1906) -- 78. Max Creutz, The New Kempinski Building (1907) -- 79. Maximilian Rapsilber, Hotel Adlon (1907) -- 80. Robert Walser, Berlin W. (1910) -- 81. Robert Walser, The Little Berlin Girl (1909) -- 82. Walter Lehwess, The Design Competition for Rüdesheimer Platz (1912).

83. Wilhelm Borchard, The Picnic Season (1914) -- 84. Paul Westheim, Building Boom (1917) -- 8. The Green Outdoors -- 85. Wilhelm Bölsche, Beyond the Metropolis (1901) -- 86. Heinrich Hart, Statutes of the German Garden City Association (1902) -- 87. Hans Kampffmeyer, The Garden City and Its Cultural and Economic Significance (1906-7) -- 88. Heinrich Pudor, The People's Park in Greater Berlin (1910) -- 89. Karl Ernst Osthaus, Garden City and City Planning (1911) -- 90. Anonymous, Lietzensee-Park in Charlottenburg (1912) -- 91. Hannes Müllerfeld, Down with the Garden City! (1914) -- 92. Max Osborn, The Fairy-Tale Fountain in the Friedrichshain, Berlin (1914) -- 93. Paul Westheim, Workers' Housing Estate at Staaken (1915) -- 94. Martin Wagner, Urban Open-Space Policy (1915) -- 95. Bruno Taut, The Falkenberg Garden Suburb near Berlin (1919-20) -- Part Two. World War I and the City -- 9. City in Crisis -- 96. Bruno Taut, A Necessity (1914) -- 97. Vorwärts, [War or Not] (1914) -- 98. General Gustav von Kessel, Berlin in a State of War: Proclamation of the Commander-in-Chief in the Marches (1914) -- 99. H. B., [War Fever in Berlin, August 1914] -- 100. Berliner Tageblatt, [Berlin Potato Shortage] (1915) -- 101. Anonymous, Competition for Greater Berlin Architects (1916) -- 102. Berliner Tageblatt, Demonstration in Berlin (1918) -- 103. Friedrich Bauermeister, On the Great City (1918) -- 104. Walter Gropius, The New Architectural Idea (1919) -- 105. Leopold Bauer, The Economic Unsustainability of the Large City (1919) -- 10. Critical Responses -- 106. Paul Wolf, The Basic Layout of the New City (1919) -- 107. Bruno Taut, The City Crown (1919) -- 108. Otto Bartning, Church Architecture Today (1919) -- 109. Peter Behrens and Heinrich de Fries, On Low-Cost Building (1919) -- 110. Käthe Kollwitz, Diary Entry, 11 September 1919.

111. Hermann Muthesius, Small House and Small-Scale Housing Development (1920) -- Part Three. Weltstadt-World City -- 11. Planning the World City -- 112. Martin Mächler, The Major Population Center and Its Global Importance (1918) -- 113. Bruno Möhring, On the Advantages of Tower Blocks and the Conditions under Which They Could Be Built in Berlin (1920) -- 114. Siegfried Kracauer, On Skyscrapers (1921) -- 115. Martin Mächler, On the Skyscraper Problem (1920-21) -- 116. Joseph Roth, If Berlin Were to Build Skyscrapers: Proposals for Easing the Housing Shortage (1921) -- 117. Adolf Behne, The Competition of the Skyscraper Society (1922-23) -- 118. Egon Erwin Kisch, The Impoverishment and Enrichment of the Berlin Streets (1923) -- 119. Ernst Kaeber, The Metropolis as Home (1926) -- 120. Karl Scheffler, Berlin Fifty Years from Now: Perspectives on One of the World's Great Cities (1926) -- 121. Martin Wagner, Werner Hegemann, and Heinrich Mendelssohn, Should Berlin Build Skyscrapers? (1928) -- 122. Martin Wagner and Adolf Behne, The New Berlin-World City (1929) -- 123. Martin Wagner, The Design Problem of a City Square for a Metropolis: The Competition of the "Verkehr" Company for the Remodeling of Alexanderplatz (1929) -- 124. Max Berg, The Platz der Republik in Berlin (1930) -- 125. Werner Hegemann, Berlin, City of Stone: The History of the Largest Tenement City in the World (1930) -- 126. Walter Benjamin, A Jacobin of Our Time: On Werner Hegemann's Das steinerne Berlin (1930) -- 127. Hannes Küpper, The "Provinces" and Berlin (1931) -- 128. Adolf Hitler, Speech at Foundation-Stone Ceremony of the Faculty of Defense Studies, Berlin (1937) -- 12. Berlin Montage -- 129. Käthe Kollwitz, Diary Entry, 25 January 1919 -- 130. Kurt Tucholsky, "Berlin! Berlin!" (1919) -- 131. "Sling" (pseud. Paul Schlesinger), The Telephone (1921).

132. Käthe Kollwitz, Diary Entry, 1 May 1922.