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Amnesiopolis : modernity, space, and memory in East Germany / Eli Rubin.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191796579 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Public housing -- Germany (East) -- History -- 20th century | Housing policy -- Germany (East) -- History -- 20th century | Berlin (Germany) -- Social conditions -- 20th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198732266DDC classification: 363.585094315520904 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online 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 also focuses especially 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.| Item type | Current library | Copy number | Status | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 also focuses especially 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.
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