Berlin A City In Search Of Its Future
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Remaking Berlin
Author | : Timothy Moss |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2020-09-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0262360896 |
An examination of Berlin's turbulent history through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. In Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss takes a novel perspective on Berlin's turbulent twentieth-century history, examining it through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. He shows that, through a century of changing regimes, geopolitical interventions, and socioeconomic volatility, Berlin's networked urban infrastructures have acted as medium and manifestation of municipal, national, and international politics and policies. Moss traces the coevolution of Berlin and its infrastructure systems from the creation of Greater Berlin in 1920 to remunicipalization of services in 2020, encompassing democratic, fascist, and socialist regimes.
Berlin, city between past and future
Author | : Toma Babovic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Berlin (GermanY) |
ISBN | : 9783831900107 |
Berlin Now
Author | : Peter Schneider |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2014-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0374254842 |
A "longtime Berliner's ... exploration of the heterogeneous allure of this vibrant city. Delving beneath the obvious answers--Berlin's club scene, bolstered by the lack of a mandatory closing time; the artistic communities that thrive due to the relatively low (for now) cost of living--Schneider takes us on an insider's tour of this rapidly metamorphosing metropolis, where high-class soirees are held at construction sites and enterprising individuals often accomplish more without public funding--assembling a makeshift club on the banks of the Spree River--than Berlin's officials do"--Provided by publisher.
Views of Berlin
Author | : KIRCHHOFF |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-11-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 148996715X |
The Passenger: Berlin
Author | : The Passenger |
Publisher | : Europa Editions |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1609456696 |
The best new writing, photography, art, and reportage from and about Berlin—in the series that’s “like a literary vacation” (Publishers Weekly). In 1990s Berlin, the scars of a century of war were still visible everywhere: coal stoves, crumbling buildings, desolate minimarts, not a working buzzer or elevator. To visit the city then was a hallucinatory experience, a simultaneous journey into the past and into the future. The abandoned ruins, the hidden gems found at the flea market, the illegal basement raves are a thing of the past. The era of Berlin as a site of urban archeology is over. Almost all the damaged buildings have been repaired, squatters have been removed, the shops selling East German furniture have closed down. Without its wounds, the landscape of the city is perhaps less striking but more solid, stronger. Even the city’s inhabitants have lost some of their melancholia, their romantic and self-destructive streak: today you can even find people who come to Berlin to actually work, not just to “create” or idle their days away. Yet, Berlin remains a youthful city and retains its aura as “the capital of cool.” Its only sacrosanct principles are an uncompromising multiculturalism and the belief that its future is yet to be written. This volume of the series includes: The Greatest Show in Town: The Resurrection of Potsdamer Platz by Peter Schneider · Berlin Suite by Cees Nooteboom · Tempelhof: A Field of Dreams by Vincenzo Latronico · Plus: the controversial reconstruction of a Prussian castle, Berlin’s most transgressive sex club and its disappearing traditional pubs, a green urban oasis, suburban neo-Nazis, North Vietnamese in the East, South Vietnamese in the West, techno everywhere and much more . . . “These books are so rich and engrossing that it is rewarding to read them even when one is stuck at home.” —The Times Literary Supplement
Berlin's Forgotten Future
Author | : Matt Erlin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Through an analysis of the works of the Berlin Aufklarer Friedrich Gedike, Friedrich Nicolai, G. E. Lessing, and Moses Mendelssohn, Matt Erlin shows how the rapid changes occurring in Prussia's newly minted metropolis challenged these intellectuals to engage in precisely the kind of nuanced thinking about history that has come to be seen as characteristic of the German Enlightenment. The author's demonstration of Berlin's historical-theoretical significance also provides perspective on the larger question of the city's impact on eighteenth-century German culture. Challenging the widespread idea that German intellectuals were anti-urban, the study reveals the extent to which urban sociability came to be seen by some as a problematic but crucial factor in the realization of their Enlightenment aims.
Back to the Postindustrial Future
Author | : Felix Ringel |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2018-03-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1785337998 |
How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to outmigration after German reunification and the coal industry crisis, leading to the large-scale deconstruction of its cityscape. This book tells the story of its inhabitants, now forced to reconsider their futures. Building on recent theoretical work, it advances a new anthropological approach to time, allowing us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.
In Search Of Berlin
Author | : John Kampfner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-07-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781838954840 |
The new book from Sunday Times bestselling author John Kampfner: the 800-year story of Berlin, the most important capital city in Europe[Bokinfo].