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Berlin Re-Divided: Housing Politics in Times of Austerity and Crisis

Berlin Re-Divided: Housing Politics in Times of Austerity and Crisis

Exit Paper
Advisor: Prof. William Goldsmith
Cornell University 2012

“…but the apparently free city is promiscuous. Over the last two decades Berlin has been a laboratory of neoliberal market economies and bottom-up businesses, of large-scale development and exclusionary displacement, of new forms of urban creativity and austerity politics. The wall came down but a new socio-economic gap increasingly divides the city along the rift of income inequality, dictating spatial reallocation through rent prices.”