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Article: Urban renewal and the end of social housing: the roll out of neoliberalism in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg: urban renewal, urban policy, and modes of regulation.
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- September 22, 2006
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HISTORICALLY, URBAN RENEWAL HAS BEEN AN INSTRUMENT AND EXPRESSION OF SOCIAL and political tendencies and power relations. The slum-clearing measures by Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann in 19th-century Paris aimed at order and urban sanitation for the fast-growing cities in the age of industrialization. In the 1960s, urban renewal strategies involving the complete demolition of old buildings and their replacement with new ones exemplify the ideology of functional cities in the age of Fordism. Re-urbanization strategies in the current phase of urban policy are boosting a post-Fordist orientation toward sophisticated lifestyles and conspicuous consumption. Both the results and ...
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