1. Berlin: The City of Millions
1800: 170,000
Early 1850s: 500,000
1877: 1,000,000
: 2,000,000
1920: 4,000,000

2. Map of Berlin

3. Economic and Political Context-1
Civil War in 1918 and 1919
Weimar Republic, August
Street violence, political assassinations and hyper inflation

4. Economic and Political Context-2
Collapse of the monetary system
Economic boom ( ): capital exports from the US
Crash in 1929
High rates of unemployment

5. In front of an employment office

6. Berlin in the late 19th and early 20th century
An industrial center: metalworking, machinery, and electrical industries
East-West divide
Tenements: overcrowded, poor living conditions

7. Tenements in Berlin

8. New Construction Projects in the 1920s
Leading role of the government
Goals: Better access to light, air, and open space
Nonprofit building cooperatives: Gehag, Britz, a project sponsored by Gehag
Drastic slowdown in the construction projects

9. Britz

10. Transportation Network
Coming of railroad, 1830s
Elevated rail lines
Electric Street Cars
Subway lines and busses
1930s: 1.5 billion passengers

11. Potsdam Square