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Post-wall Berlin : borders, space and identity / Janet Ward
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 |
| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Umfang: | XIX, 405 S. : Ill., Kt. ; 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 0230276571 9780230276574 |
| Anmerkungen: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-385) and index Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
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| Basisklassifikation: | 15.46 Brandenburg, Preußen, Berlin; Deutsche Geschichte |
| Mehr zum Titel: | 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. |
| Zusammenfassung: | "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"-- 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 |