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During the high days of modernization fever, among the many
disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was
an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity:
increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of
this volatile dynamic was the era's burgeoning motorcycle culture.
With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes, motorcycles
complexly symbolized masculinity and freedom, embodying a
widespread desire to embrace progress as well as profound anxieties
over the course of social transformation. Through its richly
textured account of the motorcycle as both icon and commodity, The
Devil's Wheels teases out the intricacies of gender and class in
the Weimar years.
During the high days of modernization fever, among the many
disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was
an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity:
increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of
this volatile dynamic was the era's burgeoning motorcycle culture.
With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes, motorcycles
complexly symbolized masculinity and freedom, embodying a
widespread desire to embrace progress as well as profound anxieties
over the course of social transformation. Through its richly
textured account of the motorcycle as both icon and commodity, The
Devil's Wheels teases out the intricacies of gender and class in
the Weimar years.
Could the concepts of "metropolitanism" and "thick space" aid our
understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays
by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide
interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale
urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding
the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The
following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental,
and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a
theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of
planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and
segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of
infrastructures and architecture.
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