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Title
Inventing Berlin : architecture, politics and cultural memory in the new/old German capital post-1989 / Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse.
ISBN
9783030297183 (electronic book)
3030297187 (electronic book)
3030297179
9783030297176
Publication Details
Cham : Springer, c2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-29
Call Number
DD881.3
Dewey Decimal Classification
943/.155088
Summary
This book comprehensively examines post-1989 changes to the symbolic landscape of Berlin - specifically, street names, architecture, urban planning and monuments - and links these changes to concepts of contested cultural memory and national identity in Berlin and Germany in the post-Wall period. The core of the book is made up of an analysis of built space changes in the eastern half of the city before and after the Berlin Wall, flanked by an introduction to the theoretical underpinnings of the topic and a wider interpretation of the events in Berlin in relation to other geographic and historical contexts. It furthermore offers an explanatory model for the phenomenon of the "symbolic foreigner" whereby former citizens of the GDR feel disenfranchised and excluded from today's German society. This book is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and also appeals to a wider, non-academic audience with an interest in both cultural memory and Berlin.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Urban book series.
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030297176
Introduction
Spatial Symbolism and Politics
The Politicization of Berlins Urban Landscape, 1945
1989
Identity, Politics, and the Creation of Consensus
The Cultural Landscape of the Berliner Republic: Undoing the Socialist Past
Putting It All Together: Spatial Symbolism, Cultural Memory, Nation-Building, and Berlins Urban Development after 1989
Conclusion: Current Outlook, Recent Developments and Wider Relevance.