At the Limits of the European Sanitary City: Water-related Environmental Inequalities in Berlin–Brandenburg, 1900–1939

Christoph Bernhardt has studied history and German studies at the Free University, Berlin. He worked as an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Historical Sciences at the TU, Berlin (1994–1998), where he was also awarded his doctorate (Dr. phil.) with a book on the history of housing and the building industry in Berlin before the First World War. He is now research director at the Leibniz-Institut for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Erkner near Berlin. In 2007 he completed his Habilitation on the environmental history of the Upper Rhine (1800–2000). He teaches urban and environmental history at the Technical Universities of Berlin and Darmstadt, is co-editor of Informationen zur modernen Stadtgeschichte [‘Information on Modern Urban History’] and has published extensively on the social and environmental history of European cities. More information may be found at www.irs-net.de