Urbane Varia
The end of the hipster era?
If you say ‘hipster’, one hears gentrification. And indeed the redevelopment of a run down area runs through phases, of which one of them is the ‘hipster-phase’. But what do [Meer…/ More…]
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Will Berlin expropriate private apartments?
There is no European city that does not struggle with this issue: capital seeking for profit targeting real estate as the only source of possible benefits. And by doing so, pushing prizes [Meer…/ More…]
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Kreuzberg doesn’t want Google Campus
‘FuckOff Google’. The Kreuzberg way of welcoming the idea of a Google Campus in the Berlin Bezirk of Kreuzberg. After starting similar campuses in Tel Aviv, São Paulo, Seoul, London, Warsaw [Meer…/ More…]
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Why Berlin changes so rapidly
The neighbourhood of Prenzlauerberg is hot, or to be more clear extremely popular. Although this part of Berlin tells its own story, it stands for what happens in many parts [Meer…/ More…]