Berlin, Alexanderplatz

Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city administration bureaus, developers’ offices and citizen groups


Presents multiple perspectives with a clear focus


Relies on numerous sources such as personal narratives, plans, timetables, and other documents and files

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Glossary and Acronyms
Chapter I: Introduction
Where?
Berlin (in) Alexanderplatz
Inventing East and West Anthropologies of the City
Anthropology's Objects
Chapter II: Constructing a Future Berlin
Suspect Debates
The Capital Topographies of Immorality
The European City Solids and Voids
Emptiness
Chapter III: The Disintegration of a Socialist Exemplar
Diagnosing the 'Weak Heart of the City'
Inversions of Sociality
Failures of Government
A Dangerous Place?
A Problem of 'the Social'
Producing Disorder
Chapter IV: Promising Plans
On (Not) Planning
Assembling Alexanderplatz
Premises and Promises
New Hybrids, Old Ambivalences
Postponing Failure
Chapter V: The Object of Grievance
A Time of Citizens
Citizens Summoned
Citizens Made
Governing Perceptions
Legitimate Concerns
A Citizenly Engagement with Place
Chapter VI: A Robust Square
The Place of Young People
Networking
Alexanderplatz Potentialities
Experts and Citizens Revisited
Perspectival Disparities
The Universal, the Particular and the Robust
Chapter VII: In Conclusion, Whose Alexanderplatz?
Bibliography