Post-Wall Berlin Borders, Space and Identity

by Ward, Janet

• ISBN13: 9780230276574
• ISBN10: 0230276571
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Written by a leading historian of urban visual culture, Janet Ward's Post-Wall Berlin: Borders, Space and Identitydemonstrates 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.

Author Biography

Janet Ward is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA. She is the author of Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany and co-editor of German Studies in the Post-Holocaust Age, as well as Agonistics: Arenas of Creative Contest and the forthcoming Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe. She has published a wide range of interdisciplinary work in edited collections and journals such as New German Critique, Journal of Visual Culture, Screen, and History and Technology. Her current project is a comparative study of urban destruction and reconstruction.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Preface & Acknowledgements
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
The Shaping of Axial Berlin
Nazi (Ger-)Mania
Continuity and Discontinuity in Planning 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 Global City Orders
Las Vegas on the Spree: The Americanization of the New Berlin
Building for Real in Virtual Berlin
Notes
Index