Description:
How did the post-war context of West Berlin in the 1960s impact the student protest movement in the city? This book seeks to understand how the world was viewed by the students and how the urban space they were living in influenced their political viewpoint.
Review Quotes:
The 1968 student uprising in West Berlin challenged the Nazi past of the parents' generation and the materialist values of the postwar economic miracle. In this first account in English, Laura Bowie vividly illuminates the key debate on the future politics of architecture and urbanism. (Iain Boyd Whyte, Professor of Architectural History, University of Edinburgh)
This book, based on new archival research, provides detailed insights into one expression of the widespread reaction to established architectural and city planning practices in the 1960s. The use of film by activists to engage politically in the Märkisches Viertel is a distinctive feature of the group surrounding the Diagnose journal. (Professor Caroline Maniaque, editor of Les années 68 et la formation des architects)