Von der Speicherstadt bis zur Elbphilharmonie

The richly illustrated book roams through 100 years of Hamburg's urban history and provides an overview of the most important topics such as population growth, housing conditions, architecture, and traffic. The atmospherically dense text spans an arc from Schumacher's work to today's "leap across the Elbe" under Jörn Walter. A standard work for all Hamburg lovers and researchers from the pen of the renowned publicist Gert Kähler. The updated new edition is supplemented by a chapter on the Elbphilharmonie. When Fritz Schumacher went to Hamburg in 1909, he encountered a conservatively governed city under tremendous pressure to develop; he managed to push through reforms that allowed the Hanseatic city to grow into a truly modern metropolis. The First World War brought the first mass democracy, housing for many had to be created. After the destruction of the.