Post-wall Berlin
Subtitle: borders, space and identity
By: Janet Ward
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780230276574
Subjects: Social conditions; Boundaries; History; Group identity; Memory
Description: "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"--
Notes: "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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-385) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Introduction: Berlin and the Bordered Condition: The Berlin paradigm; Berlin's frontier city legacy; Border lands in the new Europe; title: Part II. Afterlives of the Wall: Reflections and Deflections: Agency at the Wall; Post-Wall resurrections; Alternative border zones in Berlin; title: 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; title: Part IV. Holocaust Divides: Memorial Architecture in Berlin: Countermonument and catastrophe; Eisenman's cement graveyard; Siting the Holocaust in Libeskind's Jewish Museum; title: 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.