Amnesiopolis [electronic resource] : modernity, space, and memory in East Germany / Eli Rubin.
2016
HT178.G3 R83 2016eb
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Title
Amnesiopolis [electronic resource] : modernity, space, and memory in East Germany / Eli Rubin.
Author
Rubin, Eli, author.
ISBN
9780191796579 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 186 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198732266 doi
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HT178.G3 R83 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.585094315520904
Summary
Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It also focuses especially on the experience of East Germans who moved, often from crumbling slums left over as a legacy of the nineteenth century, into this radically new place, one defined by pure functionality and rationality; a material manifestation of the utopian promise of socialism.
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Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It also focuses especially on the experience of East Germans who moved, often from crumbling slums left over as a legacy of the nineteenth century, into this radically new place, one defined by pure functionality and rationality; a material manifestation of the utopian promise of socialism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
From the slums to the tabula rasa: Germany's working class, the housing program, and the Marzahn Plan
Moonscape on the mark: socialism, modernity, and the construction of a new world
Rainbows and communism: material, sensory, and mnemonic ruptures
Growing with Marzahn: childhood, community, and the space of socialism's future
Plattenbau panopticon: the Stasi, Durchherrshung, and the new housing settlements.
Moonscape on the mark: socialism, modernity, and the construction of a new world
Rainbows and communism: material, sensory, and mnemonic ruptures
Growing with Marzahn: childhood, community, and the space of socialism's future
Plattenbau panopticon: the Stasi, Durchherrshung, and the new housing settlements.