Amnesiopolis : modernity, space, and memory in East Germany / Eli Rubin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubin, Eli, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public housing--Germany (East)--History--20th century.

Public housing.

Housing policy--Germany (East)--History--20th century.

Housing policy.

History.

Berlin (Germany)--Social conditions--20th century.

Berlin (Germany).

Germany (East).

Physical Description:

viii, 186 : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It focuses particularly on the experience of East Germans who moved, often from crumbling slums left over as a legacy of the nineteenth century, into this radically new place-one defined by pure functionality and rationality-a material manifestation of the Utopian promise of socialism. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 From the Slums to the Tabula Rasa: Germany's Working Class, the Housing Program, and the Marzahn Plan 13

2 Moonscape on the Mark: Socialism, Modernity, and the Construction of a New World 49

3 Rainbows and Communism: Material, Sensory, and Mnemonic Ruptures 77

4 Growing with Marzahn: Childhood, Community, and the Space of Socialism's Future 105

5 Plattenbau Panopticon: The Stasi, Durchherrschung, and the New Housing Settlements 131.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780198732266

0198732260

OCLC:

942849190