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Author Weszkalnys, Gisa, author.

Title Berlin, Alexanderplatz : transforming place in a unifed Germany / Gisa Weszkalnys
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 214 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Space and place ; v. 1
Space and place ; v. 1.
Contents List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Glossary and Acronyms Chapter I: Introduction ; Where?; Berlin (in) Alexanderplatz; Inventing East and West Anthropologies of the City; Anthropology's Objects Chapter II: Constructing a Future Berlin ; Suspect Debates; The Capital Topographies of Immorality; The European City Solids and Voids; Emptiness Chapter III: The Disintegration of a Socialist Exemplar ; Diagnosing the 'Weak Heart of the City'; Inversions of Sociality; Failures of Government; A Dangerous Place?; A Problem of 'the Social'; Producing Disorder Chapter IV: Promising Plans ; On (Not) Planning; Assembling Alexanderplatz; Premises and Promises; New Hybrids, Old Ambivalences; Postponing Failure Chapter V: The Object of Grievance ; A Time of Citizens; Citizens Summoned; Citizens Made; Governing Perceptions; Legitimate Concerns; A Citizenly Engagement with Place Chapter VI: A Robust Square ; The Place of Young People; Networking; Alexanderplatz Potentialities; Experts and Citizens Revisited; Perspectival Disparities; The Universal, the Particular and the Robust Chapter VII: In Conclusion, Whose Alexanderplatz? Bibliography
Summary A benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology, Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid transformation of the unified Berlin. Through a captivating account of the controversy around this symbolic public square in East Berlin, the book raises acute questions about expertise, citizenship, government and belonging. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city administration bureaus, developers' offices, citizen groups and in Alexanderplatz itself, the author advances a richly innovative analysis of the multiplicity of place. She reveals how Alexanderplatz
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-202) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Public spaces -- Political aspects -- Germany -- Berlin
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
ARCHITECTURE -- Urban & Land Use Planning.
Buildings
Public spaces -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Alexanderplatz (Berlin, Germany) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95001238
Berlin (Germany) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Subject Germany -- Berlin
Germany -- Berlin -- Alexanderplatz
Berlin (Allemagne) -- Alexanderplatz.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010007979
ISBN 9781845458355
1845458354
1782383182
9781782383185
1282662457
9781282662452
9786612662454
661266245X