City Inside Out (side)
Subtitle: Transit Spaces from Berlin's Heterotopian Spaces to Moscow's Metro(scape)
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Saarbrucken, Germany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783846541678
Description: In a territory where non-place and space of flows prevail, a new category of landscape ‘in transit’ is experienced by ‘users on the move’, as they cross ‘in-between boundaries', whilst providing the possibility of a more situational location of the 'urban self' within global mobility. The study proposes a spatio-temporal journey through transit spaces from Berlin's post-GDR Heterotopian Spaces to Moscow's post-Soviet Metro(scape) along West-East Metropolitan Corridor. The cases of Berlin and Moscow are explored in the context of their reconstructed global urban images, whilst shaping local construction of place identity. From the historical erasure of socialist symbols to recent postmodern spatiality, Berlin's Heterotopian Spaces and Moscow's Metro(scape) are experienced as hybrid transit spaces at the frontier of post-socialist transformation. The reinvention of Berlin and Moscow, as World Class Cities and as venues of contested West-East transformation, raises issues of how politics, history, and place making and visioning are interlinked in the spatial constitution and expression of collective memory and cultural identities.
Table of contents: title: List of Figures; title: Acknowledgement; title: Preface; title: Chapter One: Post-Tourism and Urban Images; title: The Tourist Gaze; title: The Post-Tourist Experience; title: Post-Socialist Heritage Tourism; title: Chapter Two: The Neo-Flâneur's Spatial Navigation; title: Heterotopias and Transit Spaces; title: The Flâneur’s Narratives; title: Eye-Swiping and Urban Photography; title: The Neo-Flâneur’s Urban Gaze; title: Chapter Three: Moscow's Post-Soviet Metro(scape); title: Metro’s Historical  Narratives; title: Narratives of Transition within Post-Soviet Metro(scape); title: Spaces of Transition; title: Spaces of Marginalisation; title: Spaces  of  Globalisation; title: Manezhnaya Square; title: GUM State Universal Store; title: Chapter Four: Berlin's Post-GDR  Heterotopian Spaces; title: Navigation within Berlin's Heterotopias; title: Post-Socialist Transformation; title: Post-Reunification Urban Strategies; title: Post-GDR  Heterotopian Spaces; title: Spaces  of Memories; title: The Berlin Wall; title: Brandenburger Gate; title: Palast der Republik; title: Alexander Platz; title: Spaces of Resistance - Spandauer Vorstadt; title: Spaces of Marginalisation  - Kreuzberg; title: Spaces of Globalisation  - Potsdamer Platz; title: Chapter Five:  Transit Spaces from Berlin to Moscow; title: Narratives of Transition; title: Meaning and Urban Memory; title: Bibliography; title: End Notes