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Feeling at home in lonely cities : an emotional history of the West German urban commune movement during the long 1970s

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Häberlen, Joachim C. (2019) Feeling at home in lonely cities : an emotional history of the West German urban commune movement during the long 1970s. Urban History . (In Press)

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Abstract

‘We want to live together, not alone.’ Thus read the title of a 1984 book about ‘communes today’, as the subtitle put it.1 Loneliness: this is what an increasing number of urban critics since the 1960s across the political spectrum considered an effect of modern cities, in particular of the newly built high-rise buildings at cities’ outskirts such as Märkisches Viertel in West Berlin. Commentators depicted cities as monotonous ‘desserts of concrete’, places that were characterized by a dearth of social interaction, by isolation and loneliness.2Michael Ende’s famous children’s book Momo, published in 1973, for example told the story of an old and beautiful city being torn down by the ‘grey gentlemen’, easily decipherable as representatives of modern, rational capitalism, only to be replaced by uniform buildings.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Communal living -- Germany (West), Cities and towns -- History -- Germany (West)
Journal or Publication Title: Urban History
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISSN: 0963-9268
Official Date: 5 June 2019
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5 June 2019Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit: 11 June 2019
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: In Press
Publisher Statement: This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form for publication in Urban History https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
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