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Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture Politics and the Built Environment SeriesPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (457 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822979579
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided BerlinDDC classification:
  • 720.94315509045
LOC classification:
  • NA1085
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: Divided Capital, Dividing Capital -- Chapter 1. Modern Capital, Divided Capital: Berlin before the Wall -- Chapter 2. A Capital without a Country: Shaping West Berlin's Image in the Early Cold War -- Chapter 3. The Unbridled Buildup of Socialism: Defining and Critiquing Heimat-GDR -- Chapter 4. The Dreamed-of GDR: Public Space, Private Space, and National Identity in the Honecker Era -- Chapter 5. Capital of the Counterculture: West Berlin and the Changing Divides of the Cold War West -- Chapter 6. Back to the Center: Restoring West Berlin's Image and Identity -- Chapter 7. Collapsing Borders: Housing, Berlin's 750th Anniversary, and the End of the GDR -- Conclusion: Constructing the Capital of the Berlin Republic -- Appendix: Governing Entities and Nomenclature, 1949-1989 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Emily Pugh provides an original comparative analysis of selected works of architecture and urban planning in East and West Berlin during the "Wall era," to reveal the importance of these structures to the formation of political, cultural, and social identities.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction: Divided Capital, Dividing Capital -- Chapter 1. Modern Capital, Divided Capital: Berlin before the Wall -- Chapter 2. A Capital without a Country: Shaping West Berlin's Image in the Early Cold War -- Chapter 3. The Unbridled Buildup of Socialism: Defining and Critiquing Heimat-GDR -- Chapter 4. The Dreamed-of GDR: Public Space, Private Space, and National Identity in the Honecker Era -- Chapter 5. Capital of the Counterculture: West Berlin and the Changing Divides of the Cold War West -- Chapter 6. Back to the Center: Restoring West Berlin's Image and Identity -- Chapter 7. Collapsing Borders: Housing, Berlin's 750th Anniversary, and the End of the GDR -- Conclusion: Constructing the Capital of the Berlin Republic -- Appendix: Governing Entities and Nomenclature, 1949-1989 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Emily Pugh provides an original comparative analysis of selected works of architecture and urban planning in East and West Berlin during the "Wall era," to reveal the importance of these structures to the formation of political, cultural, and social identities.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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