Berlin’s waterfront site struggle

Albert Scharenberg and Ingo Bader

City, 2009, vol. 13, issue 2-3, 325-335

Abstract: In the summer of 2008, a local social movement in Berlin successfully challenged the city’s currently largest harbor front development project 'Media Spree’. While the project, which aims to attract and develop creative industries, is a model of neo‐liberal urbanism, the paper demonstrates that in a contested city, urban development cannot adequately be explained by 'top‐down’ approaches focusing on neo‐structuralist arguments, but that it is rather the result of a complex negotiation process. The paper thus makes the case for the relevance of analyzing social movements for understanding urban development.

Date: 2009
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