Amnesiopolis
From Mietskaserne to Wohnungsbauserie 70 in East Berlin's Northeast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9645628 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eli Rubin (0000-0002-6149-410X, Western Michigan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 334-374 |
| Publication date | 2014-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938914001277 |
| OpenAlex | W2112036738 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
On April 11, 1977, near a small village northeast of Berlin called Marzahn, construction teams from the Volkseigener Betrieb (VEB) Tiefbau Berlin began digging the first foundation for what became the largest construction site and the largest prefabricated housing settlement ( Plattenbausiedlung ) not just in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), but in all of Europe (see Figure 1). An army of more than 6,000 workers arrived, and over the course of the next decade, built more than 200,000 apartments in Marzahn and the surrounding areas of the northeast edge of Berlin. These came to house more than 400,000 residents, who moved there from the older neighborhoods of East Berlin and from all over the GDR
Archaeology · Berlin wall · Business · Democracy · Digging · Economic history · Fall of man · Geography · German · Political science · Politics · Settlement (finance · European history and politics · German History and Society · History · Law · Urbanization and City Planning
Social Bodies
The Impossible Border
East as True West
In the Wake of War
Within Walls
Neighbors and Enemies
Beating the Fascists
Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914
Creating German Communism, 1890-1990
Khrushchev modern
The Impossible Border
Death in Berlin
Reshaping Russian Architecture
Reshaping Russian Architecture
Constructivist Architecture in the USSR
The Fire
The Not-So-Golden Twenties
The Movement for Housing Reform in Germany and France, 1840-1914
Cold War in the Kitchen
Beating the Fascists? The German Communists and Political Violence, 1929-33
Seeing Like a State
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |