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. JANET WARD 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'. 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. INDICE: List of Figures - Preface & Acknowledgements - PART I: INTRODUCTION: BERLIN AND THE BORDERED CONDITION - The Berlin Paradigm - Berlin's FrontierCity 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 - Continuityand 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 b New Global City Orders - Las Vegas on the Spree: The Americanization of the New Berlin - Building for Real in Virtual Berlin - Notes - Select Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-27657-4
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 404
- Fecha Publicación: 18/03/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido