Reconfiguring the Spaces of the “Creative Class” in Contemporary Berlin
Year: 2017
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The impact of gentrification has been particularly tangible in Berlin since the turn of the century.Elsewhere in this volume, Schuster-Craig investigates how these tensions manifest themselves in terms of the 'integration' debate in the specific district of Neu-Kölln, and how cultural production has sought to address these.Linking to the contribution of Sark on the cultural history of post-Wall Berlin in this volume, but focusing on the conditions of production, rather than production itself, the present contribution analyses how gentrification impacts on the availability of spaces for cultural production across the city, ultimately illustrating how this particular problem is now being seen in relation to the integration of marginalized groups into the city.In 2014, a book entitled Berlin Wonderland was published that commemorated the early years of Tacheles, an artist collective that had gathered, in the immediate post-unification period, in an abandoned building, a former department store in the center of the former East Berlin.Berlin Wonderland created a relatively ordered archive of photographs and testimony of the years from 1990 onwards when, as the book's preface described it:In East Berlin, entirely new dimensions of freedom arose -political, social and cultural.Empty buildings that had been quietly decaying were occupied by new
Source: Berghahn Books
Author: Simon Ward
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4243675229