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

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    • Cliver, Gwyneth
    • Smith-Prei, Carrie

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

edited by Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei

(Space and place, v. 13)

Berghahn, c2015

  • : harback

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 of previous presence - creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei PART I: GROUNDWORK Chapter 1. Preserving the Past Before and After the Wende: A Case Study of Quedlinburg Heike Alberts Chapter 2. No Man's Land: Fiction and Reality in Buddy Giovinazzo's Potsdamer Platz Christopher Jones PART II: PROJECTIONS Chapter 3. Cinematic Reflections of Germany's Postunification Woes: Architecture and Urban Space of Frankfurt (Oder) in Halbe Treppe, Lichter, and Kombat Sechzehn Sebastian Heiduschke Chapter 4. Reclaiming the Thuringian Tuscany: The Touristic Appeal of Bad Sulza and its Toskana Therme Erika Nelson Chapter 5. Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the Postunification Capital Susanna Miller, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Tamara Nadolny, Heidi Manicke, Flavia Zaka, Trevor Blakeney, and Jude Hirman Chapter 6. The Amputated City: The Voids of Hoyerswerda Gwyneth Cliver PART III: THEORIES Chapter 7. Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same? Heiner Stahl Chapter 8. Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in Eisenach's Cityscape Jason James Chapter 9. The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility: Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden's "susse Krankheit" Rob McFarland with Elizabeth Guthrie Afterword Rolf J. Goebel Notes on Contributors Index

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