Introduction: urban history and the history of urbanization in Germany / Friedrich Lenger
Urbanization and the spread of an urban culture in Germany in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Klaus Tenfelde
Burgher cities on the road to a civil society / Gisela Mettele
Burghers and other townspeople / Sylvia Schraut
Building and perceiving the city / Friedrich Lenger
Normal pollution / Franz-Josef Brüggemeier
Urban society and urban politics in Germany between the wars / Hans-Ulrich Thamer
Urban reconstruction and urban development in Germany after 1945 / Axel Schildt
Three cities, three city models, urban development / Stefan Zappe.