From locus genii to heart of the city: embracing the spirit of the city / Volker M. Welter -- Straight or crooked streets? The contested rational spirit of the modern metropolis / David Frisby -- August Endell: the spirit and the beauty of the city / Helge David -- Embodying the spirit of the metropolis: the Warenhaus Wertheim, Berlin, 1896-1904 / Helen Shiner -- The Hamburg Bismarck as city crown and national monument / Karen Lang -- The lantern and the glass: on the themes of renewal and dwelling in Le Corbusier's Purist art and architecture / Dagmar Motycka Weston -- 'Cities more fair to become the dwelling place of thy children': transcendent modernity in British urban reconstruction / Rhodri Windsor Liscombe -- Privet: theologies of privacy in some modernist urbanism / Rob Stone -- Rudolf Schwarz, the Hochstadt, and the reconstruction of Cologne / Rudolf Stegers

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