Buried city, unearthing Teufelsberg : Berlin and its geography of forgetting / Benedict Anderson.

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Anderson, Benedict [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Description
xiv, 179 pages ; 26 cm

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    "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 vison to rival the ancient cities of Rome and Athens through their now shared geographies of seven hillls. 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." --Back cover.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-174) and index.
    ISBN
    • 9781472467652 (hardback)
    • 1472467655 (hardback)
    LCCN
    2016058694
    OCLC
    985359191
    Other standard number
    • 40027346575
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