Perhaps unexpectedly, English travel writing during the long eighteenth century reveals a discourse of global civility. By bringing together representations of the then already familiar Ottoman Empire and the largely unknown South Pacific, Sascha Klement adopts a uniquely global perspective and demonstrates how cross-cultural encounters were framed by Enlightenment philosophy, global interconne…
Historically, the notion of man-made climate has been the decisive theo-retical interface along which the mutual appropriation of modern urban climatology and modern architecture and urban planning has taken place. Berlin and Vienna in particular were laboratories and intellectual centers of urban climatology in the 1920s and 30s, which can be ex-plained not least by the political conditions in…