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In recent years, Berlin has become a ‘world media city’. Our thesis is that a key reason for this development can be found in its dynamic subculture. In the 1990s the club and music scene thrived, in particular in the deindustrializing inner‐city areas, thereby paving the way for large media and music corporations to move to Berlin. The rise of the...
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 adequate...
