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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Zimmerman, Jeffrey A. |
| Title, Analytic | The recycling of America's German-Athens: Architecture, public culture, and ethnic identity in late twentieth-century Milwaukee |
| Journal Title | Society for German-American Studies Newsletter |
| Date of Publication | 1996 |
| Volume ID | 17 |
| Issue ID | 2 |
| Location in Work | 12-16 |
| Abstract | This paper illustrates how in recent decades Milwaukee's downtown elites, merchants, and land-based interest groups, along with imported developers and architects, have resurrected the public expression of German identity in Milwaukee's downtown landscape. Through a variety of strategies, these urban decision makers have chosen to employ a variety of historical German images within their redevelopment projects. The result has been the construction of a cohesive German historical narrative into the city's downtown material landscape. However, this contemporary resurrection -- or second German Renaissance -- does not stand without critique. In fact, leaders in Milwaukee's economically marginalized black community have read the textual elements of this material landscape as a symbolic language of exclusion, and in 1990 unleashed a campaign which called for, at the very least, the symbolic inclusion of the city's black population in this recent economic rebirth of downtown |
| Notes | SGAS |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Milwaukee (Wis.)/ Architecture/ German Americans -- Wisconsin/ Ethnic identity/ Culture |