Weimar Cities: The Challenge of Urban Modernity in Germany, 1919-1933 (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)

Weimar Cities explores Germany's efforts to come to grips with its great cities after World War I; by extension the book measures the feasibility of the postwar experiment that was the Weimar Republic. The book focuses particularly on the weakness, both local and national, that resulted from the disjunct between the cities’ perceived and actual power.