Reframing Berlin : Architecture, Memory-Making and Film Locations.

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Berlin: The remembered city -- Urban memory -- Urban strategies -- Memory in Berlin -- Filmstadt Berlin -- 1. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Demolition -- New Reich Chancellery -- Palace of the Republic -- 2. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Temporary Installation -- Escape tunnels -- Wrapped Reichstag -- 3. From Scratch: New Construction -- Sony Center -- Spreebogen -- 4. Business or Pleasure?:Disneyfication -- Checkpoint Charlie -- Berliner Stadtschloss -- 5. Cycle of Life: Mutation -- The Berlin Wall -- Potsdamer Platz -- 6. Prosthetic Limbs: Supplementation -- The Reichstag Dome -- Berlin Olympic Stadium -- 7. Frozen in Time: Suspension -- Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church -- Topography of terror -- 8. On the Move: Relocation -- Grand Hotel Esplanade -- Victory Column -- 9. Survival Instinct: Adaptation -- Berlin techno clubs -- Berlin bunkers -- 10. Altered States: Appropriation -- Berlin TV Tower -- Neue Wache -- 11. My Precious!: Preservation -- The Brandenburg Gate -- Berlin State Opera -- 12. Once upon a Time: Memorialization -- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe -- Stumbling Blocks -- Conclusions: -- Berlin lessons -- The global context -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Reframing Berlin investigates the concept of urban memory through the transformation and/or consistency of the built environment. These architectural changes, defined as urban strategies, range from demolition (forgetting) to memorialisation (remembering) and are shown through case studies using film locations in Berlin. 64 b/w illus.

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