Berlin Tenement and the City

The Berlin Tenement and the City describes the development of the Berlin tenement from 1860 to 1914, showing how it became both Berlin's standard housing type and its principal urban component - the city's ubiquitous typology.

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Hobrecht Plan and the Berlin Tenement: A New Spatial Field
Chapter 3: Porosities and Intensities: Luisenstadt's Industrial Typo-morphologies
Chapter 4: Moabit and the Modest Tenement
Chapter 5: The Move to the West: Charlottenburg and the South-West
Chapter 6: Legacies and Continuities of the Tenement
Index

About the author

Katharina Borsi is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Nottingham. Previously, she held appointments at the Architectural Association and the Mackintosh School of Architecture. She trained as an architect at the Technical University Berlin and the Bartlett School of Architecture and holds a PhD in the history and theory of architecture and urbanism from the AA. She is the editor of Housing and the City (Routledge 2022), Inhabitation, Housing and the City (Special Edition of the Journal Architecture and Culture 10:3/2022) and Architectural Type and the Discourse of Urbanism (Special Edition of the Journal of Architecture 23:7-8/2018).

Product details

• Authors: Katharina Borsi, Borsi Katharina
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 23.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032434339
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3243433-9
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Routledge Research in Architectural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Sociology, Europe, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, ARCHITECTURE / History / Contemporary (1945-), ARCHITECTURE / Reference, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, Regional Studies, History of Architecture, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Human Geography, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Housing & homelessness, Housing and homelessness, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Civil engineering, surveying and building