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Post-wall Berlin : borders, space and identity

Janet Ward

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"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.

Contents

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 Weiman Berlin; Nazi (Ger-)Mania; Re-centering 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 blobal city orders; Las Vegas on the spree: the Americanization of the New Berlin; Building for real in virtual Berlin.

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Post-wall Berlin : borders, space and identity by Janet Ward. ISBN 9780230276574. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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