The ghosts of Berlin : confronting German history in the urban landscape : with a new afterword
Brian Ladd (Author)
In this elegant and compelling work, Brian Ladd examines the ongoing conflicts radiating from the remarkable fusion of architecture, history, and national identity in Berlin. How is reunified Germany confronting a divisive and authoritarian past rendered tangible by the Berlin Wall, the Reichstag, Hitler's bunker - even the Brandenburg Gate? How can the rich culture of the past, the artistic and intellectual heritage of Berlin's avant garde, be rescued from the Cold War blight of Potsdamer Platz? And can the Neue Wache, Berlin's monumental remembrance of the horrors of tyranny and war, become the structural centerpiece and the symbolic guardian of this once and future capital. -- publisher's statement
Print Book,English, 2018
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The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2018
History
ix, 291 pages ; 23 cm
9780226558721, 022655872X
1039483675
Berlin walls
Old Berlin
Metropolis
Nazi Berlin
Divided Berlin
Capital of the new Germany
Afterword: two decades later
Chronology of Berlin's history