von athensdetails | Nov. 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Living in Berlin, it is almost impossible not to come across through the traces of the Wall’s memory — especially now, as November 9th approaches, the day it finally came down. One of the most remarkable qualities of contemporary Germany is the way it deals with...
von athensdetails | Nov. 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the interwar years, the first visionary modern urban planners and theorists began to design and write about the cities of the future. Some of them, the more technocratic ones, spoke of the functional city, organised around transport, housing, work and leisure...
von athensdetails | Nov. 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
The United States, like much of the world, is going through a period of transition. I have no direct experience of the country beyond a visit to Chicago many years ago, and what I learn through friends or the news. I therefore speak not as an expert on America, but as...
von athensdetails | Nov. 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
Nowhere else in the world do two opposing visions of the Cold War coexist so clearly as in Berlin. Just a few kilometers apart lie the Hansaviertel and the Karl-Marx-Allee, two neighborhoods built almost at the same time but under very different political systems. I...
von athensdetails | Nov. 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
This September marks fifteen years since I moved to Berlin. Among the city’s residents there is a popular saying: only after living here for ten years do you „earn the right“ to say John F. Kennedy’s famous phrase Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a...
