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Bloom and bust : urban landscapes in the East since German reunification / / edited by Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei |
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New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Cities and towns - Germany (East) - History |
Germany (East) Economic conditions 1990- |
Germany (East) Economic conditions Regional disparities |
Germany History Unification, 1990 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German |
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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 /> |
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