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Author:

Pugh, Emily, author.

Title:

Architecture, politics, & identity in divided Berlin / Emily Pugh.

Publisher:

University of Pittsburgh Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xii, 440 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Architecture and society--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Architecture--History--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Architecture--History--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
City planning--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Group identity--Berlin--Berlin--History--20th century.
Germany (West)--Relations--Germany (East)
Germany (East)--Relations--Germany (West)
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
Berlin (Germany)--Social conditions--20th century.
Berlin (Germany)--Politics and government--1945-1990.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-433) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Divided Capital, Dividing Capital -- Modern Capital, Divided Capital : Berlin before the Wall -- A Capital without a Country : Shaping West Berlin's Image in the Early Cold War -- The Unbridled Buildup of Socialism : Defining and Critiquing Heimat-GDR -- The Dreamed-of GDR : Public Space, Private Space, and National Identity in the Honecker Era -- Capital of the Counterculture : West Berlin and the Changing Divides of the Cold War West -- Back to the Center : Restoring West Berlin's Image and Identity -- 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.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Culture, politics, and the built environment.

ISBN:

0822963027
9780822963028

OCLC:

(OCoLC)864504651

LCCN:

2013049108

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)