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Bloom and bust : urban landscapes in the East since German reunification /

More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East - and how the filling of previous absences and the absence...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cliver, Gwyneth (Assistant professor), Smith, Carrie, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Colección:Space and place ; v. 13.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I
  • Groundwork; Chapter 1
  • Preserving the Past Before and After the Wende; Chapter 2
  • No Man's Land: Fiction and Reality in Buddy Giovinazzo's Potsdamer Platz; Part II
  • Projections; Chapter 3
  • Cinematic Reflections of Germany's Postunification Woes: Architecture and Urban Space of Frankfurt (Oder) in Halbe Treppe, Lichter, and Kobat Sechzehn; Chapter 4
  • Reclaiming the Thuringian Tuscany: The Touristic Appeal of Bad Sulza and its Toskana Therme.
  • Chapter 5
  • Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the Postunification CapitalChapter 6
  • The Amputated City: The Voids of Hoyerswerda; Part III
  • Theories; Chapter 7
  • Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same?; Chapter 8
  • Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in Eisenach's Cityscape; Chapter 9
  • The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility: Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden's süBe Krankheit
  • Afterword; Contributors; Index.