The New Germany: A Human GeographyAn accessible, user-friendly text which draws on the latest statistics and research to emphasize the difficulties of bringing together two countries with two very diverse post-war histories. Beginning with Germany's position in 1945, it traces the differential development of East and West Germany. Describes the impact of unification and the new geography being created. Concludes with the role Germany now occupies in Europe. |
Contents
The emergence of the two German states 19459 | 9 |
Economic and social developments in West Germany 194989 | 34 |
processes and timetable | 68 |
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000 East Germans 000 workers agricultural areas asylum seekers Baden-Württemberg Bayern Bezirke Bonn Brandenburg Bremen brown coal capital central centre chemicals Chemnitz COMECON companies Cottbus Dresden Düsseldorf East German Eastern Europe economic employment energy environmental Erfurt ethnic Germans European Community example exports farm sector Federal government Federal Republic foreign former GDR former USSR Frankfurt funds GDR's German unification Germany's growth Hamburg hectares Hessen housing improve increased industrial sector investment investors kilometres Köln Kombinats labour land Leipzig levels LPGs Magdeburg major Mecklenburg-Vorpommern million modernisation München Niedersachsen Nordrhein-Westfalen Nürnberg old Länder output particular planning Poland political pollution population Potsdam priority privatisation problems production programme Raumordnungsbericht regions restructuring Rostock Ruhr rural Sachsen Sachsen-Anhalt schemes Schwerin social Source Soviet steel structure Stuttgart Table territory Thüringen towns trade transport Treuhandanstalt urban USSR West Berlin West German economy West Germany Western workforce zone
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Making a Living in Europe: Human Geographies of Economic Change Alan Townsend No preview available - 1997 |