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This chapter discusses the sea change in the symbolically charged nature of Berlin’s urban development after the retirement of the main actor, Hans Stimmann, who held a leading position in the Senate Department for Urban Development from 1991 to 2006, and his replacement with a Swiss national, Regula Lüscher. Nevertheless, many of the changes which had their genesis in the reactive and establishment periods are just now coming to fruition, including the potential redesign of Marx and Engels Square, the implementation at long last of Kollhoff’s 1993 redesign of Alexanderplatz, and the reconstruction of the Prussian City Palace, which began in 2013. This chapter concludes with a reflection on the topics introduced in this book and their relevance for other spatial contexts.
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With the tightening of the housing market, housing has become a profitable investment for project developers. The report states that the mix of housing in the upper part of the tower and offices and other business-related uses in the “pedestal” portion below it represents an “economically attractive” development option.
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Dellenbaugh-Losse, M. (2020). Conclusion: Current Outlook, Recent Developments, and Wider Relevance. In: Inventing Berlin. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29718-3_7
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