Post-Wall Berlin

Borders, Space and Identity
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-27657-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 405 Seiten, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Sources 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
World City Planning in Weimar Berlin
Nazi (Ger)Mania
Recentering 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 Selected Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

JANET WARD is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA. She is the author of and co-editor of , as well as and the forthcoming . She has published a wide range of interdisciplinary work in edited collections and journals such as , , , and . Her current project is a comparative study of urban destruction and reconstruction.