Picture 1 of 4

Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany - Picture 2 of 4

Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany - Picture 3 of 4

Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany - Picture 4 of 4

Berlin, Alexanderplatz: Transforming Place in a Unified Germany by Gisa Weszkalnys (Hardcover, 2010)

BOOKS EXPRESS (9010)

99.7% positive Feedback

Price:

£63.92

Free delivery in 2-3 days

Estimated between Wed, 11 Jun and Thu, 12 Jun

Returns:

30 days return. Buyer pays for return postage. If you use an eBay delivery label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.

Condition:

New

New, unread book. Not previously owned.

About this product

Product Information

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.