The richly illustrated book explores 100 years of Hamburg's city history and provides an overview of key topics such as population growth, housing conditions, architecture, and transportation. The atmospherically dense text spans from Schumacher's work to today's "Leap over the Elbe" under Jörn Walter. It is a standard work for all Hamburg enthusiasts and researchers, penned by the renowned publicist Gert Kähler. The updated new edition includes a chapter on the Elbphilharmonie. When Fritz Schumacher arrived in Hamburg in 1909, he encountered a conservatively governed city under immense development pressure; he succeeded in implementing reforms that transformed the Hanseatic city into a truly modern metropolis. The First World War brought the first mass democracy, and housing for many had to be created. After the destruction of the...