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By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting and important metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitors with an overview of the most central discussions on the tremendous changes Berlin experienced since the fall of the wall. It covers a wide range of issues, including inner city renewal, housing and the local economy, gentrification and other urban conflicts. The book breaks ground in two dimensions: first, by offering also non-German speakers an insight into the very controversial debates after reunification, and, second, by highlighting the ambivalent consequences of Berlin's urban transformation in the past decades.

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Berlin won't remain Berlin / Hartmut Häußermann and Walter Siebel -- Berlin is becoming the capital, surely and securely / Volker Eick -- Last exit to Alexanderplatz / Wolfgang Kil -- Berlin's urban development discourse : symbolic action and the articulation of hegemonic interests / Simone Hain -- The barbarian East / Uwe Rada -- Berlin : from divided to fragmented city? Socio-spatial changes since 1990 / Hartmut Häußermann and Andreas Kapphan -- New lines of division in the New Berlin / Margit Mayer -- Exploring the substance and style of gentrification : Berlin's "Prenziberg" / Matthias Bernt and Andrej Holm -- City of talents? Berlin's regional economy, socio-spatial fabric and "worst practice" urban governance / Stefan Krätke -- The uneven development of Berlin's housing provision : institutional investment and its consequences on the city and its tenants / Sabina Uffer -- Berlin's gentrification mainstream / Andrej Holm -- The Berlin water company : from "inevitable" privatization to "impossible" remunicipalization / Ross Beveridge and Matthias Naumann -- Berlin diversities : the perpetual act of becoming of a true metropolis / Stephan Lanz -- "Berlin does not love you" : notes on Berlin's "tourism controversy" and its discontents / Johannes Novy -- The sound of Berlin : subculture and global music industry / Ingo Bader and Albert Sacharenberg -- Spree riverbanks for everyone! What remains of "Sink Mediaspree"? / Jan Dohnke.

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