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The German WallRe-Capitalizing Berlin

The German Wall: Re-Capitalizing Berlin [In this third decade since the fall of the Wall, the center of the postmillennial, reunified Berlin is still being rebuilt by design. Planning overreach is a problem by association: after all, urban social engineers—including the Nazi Albert Speer, of course, but also avant-garde modernist ideologues such as Ludwig Hilberseimer and Le Corbusier, all with discernible roots in the earlier City Beautiful movement—have too often wanted to rewrite a city’s center in order to remold its inhabitants.2 According to postmodern tenets, urbanism as order is (or should be) dead; ergo we should not expect to control or reconfigure city space in the manner that urban planners once thought possible. Yet despite these cautionary planning tales, today’s Berlin has been overhauled as part of its reinstatement on the political, infrastructural, and architectural levels and in tandem with the former West German federalist system’s accommodation of the regained capital.3 We have witnessed immense efforts toward the re-capitalization of post-Wall Berlin—a process that has continued regardless of whether this contemporary post-industrial city may have lost its right to represent the nation in the first place. In fact, the re-capitalizing of Berlin constitutes a self-regenerating, self-renewing source of energy, at least for political, cultural, and architectural ideologues.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The German WallRe-Capitalizing Berlin

Part of the Studies in European Culture and History Book Series
Editors: Silberman, Marc
Ward, Janet
The German Wall — Oct 19, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
ISBN
978-1-349-29431-2
Pages
79 –97
DOI
10.1057/9780230118577_5
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Abstract

[In this third decade since the fall of the Wall, the center of the postmillennial, reunified Berlin is still being rebuilt by design. Planning overreach is a problem by association: after all, urban social engineers—including the Nazi Albert Speer, of course, but also avant-garde modernist ideologues such as Ludwig Hilberseimer and Le Corbusier, all with discernible roots in the earlier City Beautiful movement—have too often wanted to rewrite a city’s center in order to remold its inhabitants.2 According to postmodern tenets, urbanism as order is (or should be) dead; ergo we should not expect to control or reconfigure city space in the manner that urban planners once thought possible. Yet despite these cautionary planning tales, today’s Berlin has been overhauled as part of its reinstatement on the political, infrastructural, and architectural levels and in tandem with the former West German federalist system’s accommodation of the regained capital.3 We have witnessed immense efforts toward the re-capitalization of post-Wall Berlin—a process that has continued regardless of whether this contemporary post-industrial city may have lost its right to represent the nation in the first place. In fact, the re-capitalizing of Berlin constitutes a self-regenerating, self-renewing source of energy, at least for political, cultural, and architectural ideologues.]

Published: Oct 19, 2015

Keywords: Global City; German City; German Capital; Senate Department; Modernist Ideologue

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