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Published in: Documenta urbana 2005 - Symposium 1

This essay about the three essential periods of European modernity, with Germany as its case study, should contribute to a better understanding of spatial transformation and planning in Europe. Germany is Europe under a magnifying glass; all triumphs and disasters the continent went through in the last century happened to have their highest peaks and lowest valleys in Germany.
The following article shows the unfolding of the mythical stages of Germany's - and therefore Europe's - modernization, from Adi's projective Third Reich to the Wirtschaftswunder to the triumph of cheapness.
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