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Title
From Luxury to Necessity: Frankfurt am Main as the Pioneer of Urban Electrification
Creator
Creator Name
MORI, Takahito MORI, Takahito
森, 宜人 森, 宜人
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Hitotsubashi University
Key Word
Paradigm shift in the electricity consumption
Change of the tariff system
Innovation of illumination techniques
Experiment of the completely electrified life
Strategy of the municipal electric service
Abstract (distribution restricted)
In the urban history of Germany, it was the theory of Dieter Schott, the ‘networking of the city’, that turned historians' attention to the socioeconomic changes caused due to the introduction of electricity into a city. However, the paradigm shift in urban energy brought by electricity was not adequately elucidated as most studies were limited to the period before WWI, when electric lights were still a luxury and less than 10% of households used them. In this context, this paper examines the socioeconomic dynamism of urban electrification— fixation of the electricity as necessary energy in the urban life —using Frankfurt am Main as a case study.
Publisher
Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2016-12
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
Is Part OfRelation -
Related Title
Discussion papers ; No. 2016-12
Number of Pages
31
Appears in Collections
Discussion papers / Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/28224