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    Emplacing memory through the city: the new Berlin


    Till, Karen E. (2004) Emplacing memory through the city: the new Berlin. GHI Bulletin, 35 (Fall). pp. 73-83.

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    Abstract

    The “New Berlin” represents the shimmering promise of Germany’s future. During the decade following reunification, city marketers deployed images of construction cranes to showcase the city’s transition from an icon of Cold War division to a spectacle of (Western) cosmopolitanism. As one city marketer for the public-private group Partners for Berlin, an organization that runs summer tours through Berlin’s building sites, remarked: “Berlin is a large architectural exhibition. Each and every year things change. . . . In Berlin, unlike other cities such as Munich, I have to go to these places again and again because things change so fast.”

    Item Type: Article
    Keywords: Berlin;
    Academic Unit: Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography
    Item ID: 2729
    Depositing User: Dr. Karen Till
    Date Deposited: 23 Sep 2011 11:28
    Journal or Publication Title: GHI Bulletin
    Publisher: German Historical Institute
    Refereed: Yes
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    Use Licence: This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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