The East/West Competition - Urban Planning, Cultural Policy and Economics in Divided Berlin - Detailseite

ECTS Points: 5

Language requirements: min. English B2 / some basic German is useful for sources

Berlin is the city of East / West competition. Since the division of the city into East and West, demonstrating the power of the capitalism and socialism respectively was central to urban planning. In the beginning, the solution of obstacles to urban development proved vital. This seminar examines the dualism in urban planning between East and West Berlin chronologically. Seminar presentations and two excursions trace the diverse targets and demands of capitalist and socialist urban planning. For the analysis, we do not only consider architectural and formal aspects. The Seminar provides a closer look to strategies and models of financing and commercialisation of urban planning. Cultural contexts, living and dwelling models and political strategies will be looked at as well.

This seminar targets students interested in urban sociology and planning, metropolitan studies, German cultural history, economics, art history, and architectural history. Interested students of the humanities and social sciences are invited.

Course taught in English (with parts of literature and sources in German)

Schlusche, Günter; Pfeiffer-Kloss, Verena; Dolff-Bonekämper, Gabi; Klausmeier, Axel (Ed.): Stadtentwicklung im doppelten Berlin – Zeitgenossenschaften und Erinnerungsorte. Berlin 2014

Bennett, Lowell: Berlin bastion: the epic of post-war Berlin. Frankfurt/M. 1951 Clelland, Doug (Ed.): Berlin post-war. Berlin 1982

Herold, Stephanie; Stefanovska, Biljana (Ed.): 45+: Post-War Modern Architecture in Europe. Berlin 2012

Kossel, Elmar: Hermann Henselmann und die Moderne. Eine Studie zur Modernerezeption in der Architektur der DDR. Königstein 2013

Barbara Miller Lane: The Berlin Congress Hall 1955 – 1957. In: Perspectives in American History – New Series, Vol. 1, 1984

Flierl, Bruno: Urban Design in Berlin, GDR. Berlin 1986

Franke, Thomas: Neighbourhood management – a key instrument in integrative urban district development. Berlin 2001

Berning, Maria: Historical City in New Quality. Berlin 2009

Neubauer, Barbara (Ed.): A redevelopment area in Prenzlauer Berg Teutoburger Platz : the results of 18 years of redevelopment. Berlin 2013

Urban, Florian: Neo-historical East Berlin. Architecture and Urban Design in the German Democratic Republic 1970-1990. Surrey, 2009

Nakamura, Toshio (Ed.): International Building Exhibition Berlin 1987. Tokyo, 1987

International Building Exhibition (Ed.): First Projects in Careful Urban Renewal. Berlin 1984

International Building Exhibition (Ed.): Idee, Prozess, Ergebnis. Die Reparatur und Rekonstruktion der Stadt. Berlin 1984.

International Building Exhibition (Ed.): Project Overview. Berlin 1991

Harald Bodenschatz, Cordelia Polinna: Learning from IBA. Berlin 2010

Bernt, Matthias; Grell, Britta; Holm, Andrej (Ed.): The Berlin Reader: a compendium on urban change and activism. Berlin 2013

Fesel, Anke; Keller, Chris: Berlin Wonderland: Wild Years Revisited, 1990-1996. Berlin 2014

This seminar carries 5 ECTS.

For international incoming students and HU students.

Language requirements English B2 minimum.

NO registration via Agnes.

Application via Berlin Perspectives ONLY: BP Module application

Internationale Programmstudierende / International exchange students.

HU-Studierende im ÜWP.