Download or read book Bloom and Bust written by Gwyneth Cliver and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East — and how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous presence — creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation.