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Buried city, unearthing Teufelsberg : Berlin and its geography of forgetting / Benedict Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Benedict, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loss (Psychology).
- Social aspects.
- Lost architecture.
- Teufelsberg (Berlin, Germany).
- Lost architecture--Germany--Berlin.
- Loss (Psychology)--Social aspects--Germany--Berlin.
- World War, 1939-1945--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Psychological aspects.
- Berlin (Germany)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Berlin (Germany).
- Persons with Disabilities.
- Biomedical Enhancement.
- Mainstreaming, Education.
- Self-Help Devices.
- Social Perception.
- Sociological Factors.
- Germany--Berlin.
- Medical Subjects:
- Persons with Disabilities.
- Biomedical Enhancement.
- Mainstreaming, Education.
- Self-Help Devices.
- Social Perception.
- Sociological Factors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 179 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Cities are built over the remnants of their past buried beneath their present. We build on what has been built before, whether over foundations formalising previous permanency or over the temporal occupations of ground. But what happens when you shift a city - when you dislodge its occupation of ground towards a new ground, bury it and forget it? Focusing on Berlin's destruction during World War II and its reconstruction after the end of the war, this book offers a rethinking of how the practices of destruction and burial combine to reform the city through geography and how burying a city is intricately tied to forgetting destruction, ruination and trauma. Created from 25 million cubic metres of rubble produced during World War II, Teufelsberg (Devil's Mountain) is the exemplar of the destroyed city. Its critical journey is chronicled in combination with Berlin's seven other rubble hills, and their connections to constructing forgetting through burial. Furthermore, the book investigates Berlin's sublime relation to Albert Speer's urban vision to rival the ancient cities of Rome and Athens through their now shared geographies of seven hills. Finally, there is a central focus on the role of the citizens who cleared Berlin's streets of rubble, and the subsequent human relationships between people and ruins. This book is valuable reading for those interested in Architectural Theory, Urban Geography, Modern History and Urban Design. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: reflecting - above and below 1
- City and destruction 3
- Mound and Earth 12
- 1 Ruins: self-portraiture, capturing, forgetting 19
- Rubblescape - working in ruins 19
- Ruinenlust - attraction and spectacle: looking on 24
- Self-ruining - portraits in the rubble 31
- Ruins' value - Speeds romanticism 37
- Brutality in ruins - Kluge's Nuremburg 42
- Seven ruins - Athens, Rome, Berlin 45
- 2 Memoirs: self-anaesthesia, cultural forgetting 51
- Silent voices - the hiddenness of experience 53
- Sebald's self-anaesthesia - underwriting amnesia 62
- Spatial anaesthesia - the urban flaw 70
- 3 Burial: abandoning the city, physical forgetting 81
- Interring and disposing - human and material 81
- Building out - the Urstromtal in biomorphic vision 85
- Erasing the city - materiality of trauma 98
- 4 Disappearance: planting the forest, natural forgetting 109
- Covering over - the psychotope of destruction 109
- Placidity of the park - the nature of leisure 121
- Out of the forest - the nature of law 127
- 5 New ground: unearthing Teufelsberg, against forgetting 137
- Extracting - scraping back 137
- Future archaeology - unearthing 143
- Conciusion: remembering - undoing forgetting, the reveal 159
- Graphiens - towards the new visible 160
- Dissection - inside the buried city 164.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.
- ISBN:
- 9781315570556
- 1315570556
- Publisher Number:
- 99985722573
- 40027346575
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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