Bloom and Bust: Urban Landscapes in the East since German Reunification

More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East - and how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous presence - creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation.

Chapter 5 -- Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the Postunification CapitalChapter 6 -- The Amputated City: The Voids of Hoyerswerda; Part III -- Theories; Chapter 7 -- Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same?; Chapter 8 -- Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in Eisenach's Cityscape; Chapter 9 -- The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility: Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden's süBe Krankheit -- Afterword; Contributors; Index.

More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East - and how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous presence - creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation