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Author Merkl, Peter H

Title Small Town and Village in Bavaria : the Passing of a Way of Life
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (277 pages)
Contents Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Changing Villages and Small Places in Bavaria; Chapter 2 -- The Small-town or Village Community; Chapter 3 -- Planning Local Territorial Reform; Chapter 4 -- The Implementation of the Reform; Chapter 5 -- No Town is an Island; Chapter 6 -- Conclusion; Appendix -- Tables; Select Bibliography and Government Documents; Index
Summary At the center of this investigation is the great modernization effort of a West German state, Bavaria, in the 1970s and 1980s, by means of a reform of the smaller units of local government. The reforms were meant to abolish all autonomous local governments serving populations of fewer than 3000, thereby reducing the number of local governments in Bavaria from more than 7,000 to less than 2,000. Based on interviews, surveys, and statistical research, this study chronicles fifteen communities and their challenges, developments, and social changes from post-1945 up to the present. While this book
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Villages -- Germany -- Bavaria -- Case studies
Sociology, Rural -- Germany -- Bavaria -- Case studies
Social change -- Germany -- Bavaria -- History -- 21st century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- American Government -- State.
Social change
Sociology, Rural
Villages
Germany -- Bavaria
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011039292
ISBN 9780857453488
0857453483
1280496681
9781280496684
9786613591913
6613591912