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In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed “Americanization” of European consumer societies—in Germany and elsewhere. Arguing against these foggy notions, Jan L. Logemann takes a comparative look at the development of postwar mass consumption in West Germany and the United States and the emergence of discrete consumer modernities. In Trams or Tailfins?, Logemann explains how the decisions made at this crucial time helped to define both of these economic superpowers in the second half of the twentieth century. While Americans splurged ...
Since the 1960s, public attention has been drawn increasingly towards the thematic link between historic preservation and urban planning. Nowadays, the organized historic preservation movement in the USA is more than a mere "yearning for history": it represents an active and integral part of urban planning in US cities. In order to approach these planning, economic, and social issues in the field of historic preservation, this book analyzes a variety of interdisciplinary methods, focusing on four selected historic districts within the central business districts of Philadelphia and Boston (in the north) and Charleston and Savannah (in the south).
February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index
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Was ist Immobilienökonomie? Die Anwendung ökonomischer Prinzipien auf Immobilienmärkte ist genau das, was mit dem Begriff „Immobilienökonomie“ gemeint ist. Es werden zahlreiche Versuche unternommen, Angebots- und Nachfragemuster sowie Preise zu definieren, zu erklären und vorherzusagen. Im Gegensatz zur Forschung zu Immobilientrends, die sich auf die kommerziellen und strukturellen Veränderungen konzentriert, die den Sektor beeinflussen, hat die eng verwandte Disziplin der Hauswirtschaft einen begrenzteren Umfang und konzentriert sich auf Wohnimmobilienmärkte. Beide Ansätze nutzen partielle Gleichgewichtsanalysen, Stadtökonomie, Raumökonomie, grundlegende und umfassende Forschu...