Overview
- The proposed book: Berlin: A City Awaits is a companion to the previous book titled Potsdamerplatz: The Reshaping of Berlin by the co-author Quazi Mahtab Zaman
- The proposed book unfolds the political intentions of making and remaking of Berlin
- The proposed book presents analytical drawing, the reinterpretation from author to depict the development scenario in Berlin, which will be useful as a course textbook in architecture history and theory courses
Part of the book series: Springer Geography (SPRINGERGEOGR)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Political meaning in architecture has been a subject of interest to many critics and writers. The most notable of these include Charles T. Goodsell and Kenneth Frampton. In Goodsell's (1988) statement “Political places are not randomly or casually brought into existence” (ibid, p. 8), the stipulation is that architecture has been used very deliberately in the past to bolster connotations of power and strength in cities representative of larger nations and political movements. The question central to this book relates to how this can be achieved. Goodsell argues that any study of the interplay between political ideology, architecture, and identity, demands a place imbued with political ideas opposed to “cold concepts and lifeless abstractions” (Goodsell 1988, p. 1). As a means through which to examine and evaluate the ways in which the development of cities can be influenced by political and ideological tendencies, this book focuses on Berlin, as a political discourse, given its significant destruction and reorganisation to reinstate its identity in the context of geopolitics and the advent of globalisation.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Berlin: A City Awaits
Book Subtitle: The Interplay between Political Ideology, Architecture and Identity
Authors: Neil Mair, Quazi Mahtab Zaman
Series Title: Springer Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51449-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-51448-8Published: 20 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-51449-5Published: 19 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2194-315X
Series E-ISSN: 2194-3168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 76
Number of Illustrations: 67 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Studies/Sociology, Political Theory, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions)