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.

About the author

Gwyneth Cliver is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She completed her PhD in 2008 from Washington University in St Louis and has also taught at Guilford College in North Carolina and Ball State University. Her research includes the integration of mathematics and mathematical philosophy in the writings of Robert Musil and Hermann Broch.

Carrie Smith-Prei is Associate Professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta and holds a PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Revolting Families: Toxic Intimacy, Private Politics, and Literary Realism in the German Sixties (U of Toronto P, 2013), co-editor of a special issue on lesbian representations (Germanistik in Ireland, 2010), and is co-founder of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies.

Summary

These essays provide a fresh study of the urban landscape in the former German Democratic Republic Constructs a view of the urban environment by shifting focus away from Berlin and exploring an area of East Germany overlooked by most other studies Explores two decades of social, cultural and political shifts to reveal a modern and unified community

Product details

• Assisted by: Carrie Smith-Prei (Editor), Gwyneth Cliver (Editor)
• Authors: Gwyneth Smith-Prei Cliver
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.11.2014
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories
• EAN: 9781782384908
• ISBN: 978-1-78238-490-8
• Pages: 276
• Series: Space and Place > 13; Space and Place
• Subjects: Urban Studies, Cultural Studies (General)