I have been reexamining my Berlin visits vis a vis the severe and overwhelming gentrification by expats, and this piece brings a lot home for me. "The town’s whimsy and play have been branded by the SPD, sold to venture capital, and dangled before its residents via the Yummie Net. ... The monuments of East Germany have been demolished. Social services have been sold off, and with them have gone the memory of the city as a place of shared public goods. With the departure of manufacturing, the memory of the city as a place of manual labor is history too. The Creative reforms have worked to enrich a few, including a smattering of new arrivals, but they have done little for the rest of the city’s inhabitants."
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:42:36 +0000
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