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Potsdamer Platz

The Reshaping of Berlin

By: Malgorzata Nowobilska,Quazi Mahtab Zaman

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Potsdamer Platz

The Reshaping of Berlin

By: Malgorzata Nowobilska,Quazi Mahtab Zaman

The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks of restoring Potsdamer Platz from a state of disintegration to a condition worthy of a world-class city, although the questions remain unanswered as to how far the objectives have been achieved. The book enables readers to become familiar with the various stages of transformation, aided by the authors’ hand-drawn illustration – a series of sketches accompanied by narrations focusing on how to critically read ‘cities in transformation’. As a whole, it presents an overview of the strategic process of urban regeneration. The findings from this theoretical exploration help reposition our understanding of the process of re-making a ‘city in decay and transition’; and introduces new strands of regeneration ideologies, politics and methods.

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3319029282

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Berlin: A City Awaits

The Interplay between Political Ideology, Architecture and Identity

By: Neil Mair,Quazi Mahtab Zaman

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Berlin: A City Awaits

The Interplay between Political Ideology, Architecture and Identity

By: Neil Mair,Quazi Mahtab Zaman

Political meaning in architecture has been a subject of interest to many critics and writers. The most notable of these include Charles T. Goodsell and Kenneth Frampton. In Goodsell's (1988) statement “Political places are not randomly or casually brought into existence” (ibid, p. 8), the stipulation is that architecture has been used very deliberately in the past to bolster connotations of power and strength in cities representative of larger nations and political movements. The question central to this book relates to how this can be achieved. Goodsell argues that any study of the interplay between political ideology, architecture, and identity, demands a place imbued with political ideas opposed to “cold concepts and lifeless abstractions” (Goodsell 1988, p. 1). As a means through which to examine and evaluate the ways in which the development of cities can be influenced by political and ideological tendencies, this book focuses on Berlin, as a political discourse, given its significant destruction and reorganisation to reinstate its identity in the context of geopolitics and the advent of globalisation.

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Berlin: A City Awaits

The Interplay between Political Ideology, Architecture and Identity

By: Neil Mair,Quazi Mahtab Zaman

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Berlin: A City Awaits

The Interplay between Political Ideology, Architecture and Identity

By: Neil Mair,Quazi Mahtab Zaman

Political meaning in architecture has been a subject of interest to many critics and writers. The most notable of these include Charles T. Goodsell and Kenneth Frampton. In Goodsell's (1988) statement “Political places are not randomly or casually brought into existence” (ibid, p. 8), the stipulation is that architecture has been used very deliberately in the past to bolster connotations of power and strength in cities representative of larger nations and political movements. The question central to this book relates to how this can be achieved. Goodsell argues that any study of the interplay between political ideology, architecture, and identity, demands a place imbued with political ideas opposed to “cold concepts and lifeless abstractions” (Goodsell 1988, p. 1). As a means through which to examine and evaluate the ways in which the development of cities can be influenced by political and ideological tendencies, this brief book focuses on Berlin, as a political discourse, given its significant destruction and reorganisation to reinstate its identity in the context of geopolitics and the advent of globalisation.

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Potsdamer Platz

The Reshaping of Berlin

By: Małgorzata Nowobilska,Quazi Mahtab Zaman

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The Reshaping of Berlin

By: Małgorzata Nowobilska,Quazi Mahtab Zaman

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