RAW in Berlin Friedrichshain
By Ares Kalandides and Caspar Lundsgaard-Hansen
In terms of urban regeneration, Berlin truly is a special city: to this day, the city still boasts comparatively many undeveloped or temporally used areas. Unsurprisingly, the emergence of a large part of these areas can explicitly be ascribed to the division – and the subsequent reunification – of the German capital. One of the more prominent examples for this kind of urban areas is the RAW site in the district of Friedrichshain. Here, it is not only possible to observe the process of inner-city regeneration in Berlin, but also to examine what role the public sector can possibly occupy. Continue reading
