Books by Brian Ladd

Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the fusion of architecture, history and national identity in present-day Berlin. He surveys the urban landscape and deconstructs the public debates and political controversies emerging from Berlin's past.

A vivid social and cultural history of the streets of large European cities in their development towards the bustling nature of the modern world, from the author of "Ghosts Of Berlin" and "Autophobia".

From the Model T to the SUV, this title reveals that our vexed relationship with the automobile is nothing new - in fact, debates over whether cars are forces of good or evil in our world have raged for over a century, ever since the automobile was invented.

Ladd describes the struggle of German leaders to bring order to their rapidly growing cities during the age of industrial expansion before World War I, setting the emerging theory and practice of city planning in the context of debates about the nature of the modern city and the possibility of improving society by regulating physical environments.