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Title Bloom and bust : urban landscapes in the East since German reunification / edited by Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei
Published New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages)
Series Space and Place ; v. 13
Space and place ; v. 13.
Contents 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
Summary 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.<br />
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Cities and towns -- Germany (East) -- History
TRAVEL -- Europe -- Germany.
HISTORY -- Social History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Cities and towns
Economic history
Economic history -- Regional disparities
SUBJECT Germany (East) -- Economic conditions -- 1990-
Germany (East) -- Economic conditions -- Regional disparities
Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000423
Subject Germany
Germany (East)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cliver, Gwyneth (Assistant professor)
Smith, Carrie, 1975-
ISBN 9781782384915
178238491X