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Post-wall Berlin : borders, space and identity
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Title
Post-wall Berlin : borders, space and identity / Janet Ward.
ISBN
9780230276574 (hardback)
0230276571 (hardback)
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Physical Description
xix, 405 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Notes
"Written by a leading historian of urban visual culture, Janet Ward's Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity demonstrates how the reunified German capital, in its bid to overcome its legacy of Cold-War division, has faced many new frontiers and boundaries on social, economic, architectural and infrastructural levels"-- Provided by publisher.
Summary
"Written by a leading historian of urban visual culture, Janet Ward's Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identity demonstrates how the reunified German capital, in its bid to overcome its legacy of Cold-War division, has faced many new frontiers and boundaries on social, economic, architectural and infrastructural levels"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 25, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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List of Figures
Preface & Acknowledgements
PART I: INTRODUCTION: BERLIN AND THE BORDERED CONDITION
The Berlin Paradigm
Berlin's Frontier City Legacy
Border Lands in the New Europe
PART II: AFTERLIVES OF THE WALL: REFLECTIONS AND DEFLECTIONS
Agency at the Wall
Post-Wall Resurrections
Alternative Border Zones in Berlin
PART III: GERMAN GEOMANCY: POWER AND PLANNING IN BERLIN
The Shaping of Axial Berlin
Nazi (Ger-)Mania
Continuity and Discontinuity in Planning Postwar and Post-Wall Berlin
PART IV: HOLOCAUST DIVIDES: MEMORIAL ARCHITECTURE IN BERLIN
Countermonument and Catastrophe
Eisenman's Cement Graveyard
Siting the Holocaust in Libeskind's Jewish Museum
PART V: REBRANDING BERLIN: GLOBAL CITY STRATEGIES FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Berlin Borders
New Global City Orders
Las Vegas on the Spree: The Americanization of the New Berlin
Building for Real in Virtual Berlin
Notes
Index.
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