Prinzessinnengarten: Urban Space, Gentrification, and the Mythology of Alternativism in the New Berlin
Henry Topper (GGFUP, 2014, Location: Berlin)
In the early 2000s, Berlin spearheaded a branding campaign that would entice both the creative class and investors to reinvigorate the “poor but sexy” city. Henry Topper argues that the reclamation of abandoned spaces for alternative uses, as with the community agriculture project Prinzessenengarten, were both success stories of this campaign and harbingers of a less affordable, more cosmopolitan Berlin.