Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin

Since Unification and the end of the Cold War Berlin has witnessed a series of uncommonly intense social political and cultural transformations. While positioning itself as a creative center populated by young and cosmopolitan global citizens the New Berlin is at the same time a rich site of historical memory defined inescapably by its past even as it articulates German and European hopes for the future. Cultural Topographies of the New Berlin presents a fascinating cross-section of life in Germanys largest city revealing the complex ways in which globalization ethnicity economics memory and national identity inflect how its urban spaces are inhabited and depicted.