An Attempt to See the Soul of the Change: Kreuzberg from Margins into the Center

Year 2011, Volume: 15 Issue: 15, - , 01.09.2011

Reyhan Atasü Topçuoğlu , Emrah Akbaş

Abstract

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has witnessed a great change. But a district in Berlin has been the symbol of this change: Kreuzberg. Once had been a ghetto just bordering the Wall, Kreuzberg found itself just in the center of the city after the fall. This research tries to understand Kreuzberg as a transnational space and its transformation after the unification of Germany, 1989.

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