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Introduction : does the man make the motorcycle or the motorcycle the man? -- From pioneers to global dominance : the first forty years of the German motorcycle industry -- Engineering and advertising a motorized future -- Motorcycles and the "everyman" : exploring the motorcycling milieu -- "Is motorcycling even sport?" : strength and the national body during the Weimar Republic -- Deviant behaviors : inclusion, exclusion, and community -- Motoring Amazons? : women and motorcycling during the Weimar Republic -- Sex and the sidecar : sexuality, courtship, marriage and motorization -- Epilogue : the will to motor

Could the concepts of »metropolitanism« and »thick space« aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact

Could the concepts of "metropolitanism" and "thick space" aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic provide interdisciplinary approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization. The book opens with conceptual questions regarding the development of metropoles and metropolitan studies. The following sections provide analyses of the social, environmental, and cultural dimensions of metropolitan spaces from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, such as the role of planning and urban parks, the impact of ethnic diversity and segregation, the place of cinematic visions or the centrality of infrastructures and architecture.