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 […]
Tempelhof Field
Tempelhof Field Idan Sasson (GGFUP, 2014, Location: Berlin) With his analysis of the popular movement to keep Berlin’s Tempelhof Airfield undeveloped and free for public use, Idan Sasson assesses what he considers Berliners’ “symbolic resistance” to “business as usual” urban policy.