{"pk":20987,"title":"Understanding the City through Crisis. Neoliberalization in Post-Wall Berlin","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Over the past 25 years, Berlin has undergone a rapid process of neoliberalization. This article argues that the city’s transformation has been heavily crisis-driven and fueled by a strong political agenda. Two watershed events are crucial for an in-depth understanding of the dynamics at work: The collapse of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1989, followed by a neo-conservative and nationalist, entrepreneurial strategy for the reunified German Capital; and the financial crisis of 2001, which brought a coalition between Social-Democrats and Socialists into power that strongly emphasized Berlin’s (sub-)cultural and cosmopolitan identity, but effectively put the city on a fierce austerity track.","language":"en","license":{"name":"none","short_name":"none","text":"","url":"https://escholarship.org/terms"},"keywords":[{"word":"Urban Politics, Neoliberalism, Berlin, Crisis, Restructuring"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0cj1q5h5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Henrik","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lebuhn","name_suffix":"","institution":"Humboldt University Berlin","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2015-01-28T08:46:59Z","date_accepted":"2015-01-28T08:46:59Z","date_published":"2015-12-01T08:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/criticalplanning/article/20987/galley/10686/download/"}]}