This title is the first comprehensive biography of the town planner and architecture critic, Werner Hegemann. Since his work on the large Berlin building sites from 1910, he has been acknowledged in the trade as a specialist for modern town planning. He organized international exhibitions of urban development in Germany and in the USA. He went in exile to America in 1933 via Geneva and Paris. This book provides access to the life and work of Hegemann, whose works are still greatly valued both in Europe and in the USA.