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Author Stangl, Paul, author.

Title Risen from ruins : the cultural politics of rebuilding East Berlin / Paul Stangl.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 332 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text file
Series Stanford studies on Central and Eastern Europe
Stanford studies on Central and Eastern Europe.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Landscapes of commemoration -- City plans -- Unter den Linden -- From Royal Palace to Marx-Engels Square -- Wilhelmstrasse -- Stalinallee.
Summary This text examines city building in East Berlin from the end of World War II on May 8, 1945, until the construction of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961 - a period of great interest in reshaping the city to express new political ideals. It examines how key decision-makers were influenced by their worldview and political ideology; beliefs about the relationship between urban form and society including formal theories; political strategizing at municipal, national, and international levels; and assessments concerning the deployment of limited resources. The work emphasizes how extant discourses acted as 'pathways of memory, ' shaping the way key actors attributed meaning to different elements of the urban landscape.
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Subject City planning -- Germany -- Berlin -- History -- 20th century.
City planning.
Germany -- Berlin.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Socialist realism and architecture -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
Socialist realism and architecture.
Communism and architecture -- Germany -- Berlin -- History.
Communism and architecture.
Berlin (Germany) -- Cultural policy -- History -- 20th century.
Berlin (Germany) -- Politics and government -- 1945-1990.
Architecture and state -- Germany (East)
Architecture and state.
Germany (East)
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Stangl, Paul. Risen from ruins 9781503603202 (DLC) 2017034427 (OCoLC)995162465
ISBN 9781503605503 (electronic book)
1503605507 (electronic book)
9781503603202 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1503603202 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)