The Resource Berlin, Alexanderplatz : transforming place in a unifed Germany, Gisa Weszkalnys
Berlin, Alexanderplatz : transforming place in a unifed Germany, Gisa Weszkalnys
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- 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 is assembled through the encounters between planners, citizen activists, social workers, artists and ordinary Berliners, in processes of popular participation and personal narratives, in plans, timetables, documents and files, and in the distribution of pipes, tram tracks and street lights. Alexanderplatz emerges as a socialist spatial exemplar, a ̀future' under construction, an object of grievance, and a vision of robust public space. This book is both a critical contribution to the anthropology of contemporary modernity and a radical intervention in current cross-disciplinary debates on the city. --Book Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 214 pages
- Contents
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- Ch 1. Introduction
- ch 2. Constructing a future Berlin
- ch 3.The disintegration of a socialist exemplar
- ch 4. Promising Plans
- ch.5. The object of grievance
- ch 6. A robust square
- ch.7.Whose Alexanderplatz
- Isbn
- 9781845457235
- Label
- Berlin, Alexanderplatz : transforming place in a unifed Germany
- Title
- Berlin, Alexanderplatz
- Title remainder
- transforming place in a unifed Germany
- Statement of responsibility
- Gisa Weszkalnys
- Language
- eng
- 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 is assembled through the encounters between planners, citizen activists, social workers, artists and ordinary Berliners, in processes of popular participation and personal narratives, in plans, timetables, documents and files, and in the distribution of pipes, tram tracks and street lights. Alexanderplatz emerges as a socialist spatial exemplar, a ̀future' under construction, an object of grievance, and a vision of robust public space. This book is both a critical contribution to the anthropology of contemporary modernity and a radical intervention in current cross-disciplinary debates on the city. --Book Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Weszkalnys, Gisa
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Space and place
- Series volume
- v. 1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Public spaces
- Alexanderplatz (Berlin, Germany)
- Berlin (Germany)
- Label
- Berlin, Alexanderplatz : transforming place in a unifed Germany, Gisa Weszkalnys
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-202) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Ch 1. Introduction -- ch 2. Constructing a future Berlin -- ch 3.The disintegration of a socialist exemplar -- ch 4. Promising Plans -- ch.5. The object of grievance -- ch 6. A robust square -- ch.7.Whose Alexanderplatz
- Control code
- 437298824
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 214 pages
- Isbn
- 9781845457235
- Isbn Type
- (hardback : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010007979
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- Label
- Berlin, Alexanderplatz : transforming place in a unifed Germany, Gisa Weszkalnys
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-202) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Ch 1. Introduction -- ch 2. Constructing a future Berlin -- ch 3.The disintegration of a socialist exemplar -- ch 4. Promising Plans -- ch.5. The object of grievance -- ch 6. A robust square -- ch.7.Whose Alexanderplatz
- Control code
- 437298824
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xi, 214 pages
- Isbn
- 9781845457235
- Isbn Type
- (hardback : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2010007979
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
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