The Berlin Tenement and the City

Katharina Borsi

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Routledge
23 June 2025

City & town planning - architectural aspects; History of architecture; Homelessness; Urban & municipal planning; Civil engineering, surveying & building

Series: Routledge Research in Architectural History

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. In contrast to earlier historical categorizations of the tenement as a ‘rental barrack,’ here it is described as an evolving typology that dynamically responded to the demands of the city and urban reform.

In this dynamic understanding of architecture, the tenement is the protagonist of the actual unfolding of the city, its growth and densification, as well as its spatial and social differentiation. Charting the evolution of the productive tenement into a morphology combining living and manufacturing and the rise of tenements increasingly differentiated according to class traces their contribution to the evolution and generalization of norms of housing and domesticity.

This book is essential reading for scholars, students, architects and urbanists interested in Berlin or the history of housing and the city.

By: Katharina Borsi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9781032434339
ISBN 10: 1032434333
Series: Routledge Research in Architectural History
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 23 June 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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).

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