How to Split a City in Half (Berlin)
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Date: 2021-07-23
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Jennifer
This video is a great example of the fact that societies don't care about night shift/3rd shift workers. Those workers were cut off from their families and homes and day shift workers were not.
Night shifters see this disregard for their jobs on a daily basis. Dostors offices are closed at night. Mechanic shops are only open during the day. Business hours are dayshift hours. TV and radio broadcasts refer to morning rush hour as the commute to work and the evening one as the commute from work. Drivers drive fast in the morning but slower at night. Elementary, Middle, and High Schools operate on a Mon-Fri 8 AM-early PM model.
All of this reinfoces the idea that people only work 9-5 on Mondays through Fridays. It is very rude that society is this way but that's how it is. You are the ghost workers when you work at night.
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This video is a great example of the fact that societies don't care about night shift/3rd shift workers. Those workers were cut off from their families and homes and day shift workers were not.
Night shifters see this disregard for their jobs on a daily basis. Dostors offices are closed at night. Mechanic shops are only open during the day. Business hours are dayshift hours. TV and radio broadcasts refer to morning rush hour as the commute to work and the evening one as the commute from work. Drivers drive fast in the morning but slower at night. Elementary, Middle, and High Schools operate on a Mon-Fri 8 AM-early PM model.
All of this reinfoces the idea that people only work 9-5 on Mondays through Fridays. It is very rude that society is this way but that's how it is. You are the ghost workers when you work at night.
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Nebufelis
One interesting thing about the unserviced ghost stations was that they were basically left as they had been before the wall, with old advertisments and all kind of decades-old-stuff, only a little room for the Volkspolizei was added. It was a window into a time long gone. Together with some feeling of passing close to enemy country, they gave a really eerie feeling or at least it seems so to me in 1987, when I saw them as an 11year-old on a visit to Berlin with my parents.
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One interesting thing about the unserviced ghost stations was that they were basically left as they had been before the wall, with old advertisments and all kind of decades-old-stuff, only a little room for the Volkspolizei was added. It was a window into a time long gone. Together with some feeling of passing close to enemy country, they gave a really eerie feeling or at least it seems so to me in 1987, when I saw them as an 11year-old on a visit to Berlin with my parents.
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Jean
But how did Berlin get ressources into the city after it was isolated?
You said it functioned as an island, but even islands are dependent on cargo. How did West Berlin connect it's infrastructure to West Germany. I know trains operating between them and there were official highways for people to drive from West Germany to West Berlin. I would love to hear and know more about the arrangements they made for connecting the city to West Germany.
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But how did Berlin get ressources into the city after it was isolated?
You said it functioned as an island, but even islands are dependent on cargo. How did West Berlin connect it's infrastructure to West Germany. I know trains operating between them and there were official highways for people to drive from West Germany to West Berlin. I would love to hear and know more about the arrangements they made for connecting the city to West Germany.
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Lina
The history of Berlin is fascinating. I have lived in the suburbs my whole life, but the post war era has thoroughly influenced the city under and above the ground. This can be seen in very different urban development and architectural decisions and it is really interesting stuff. I d argue that there is probably no other place where the different influences of the cold war can be seen in such close proximity.
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The history of Berlin is fascinating. I have lived in the suburbs my whole life, but the post war era has thoroughly influenced the city under and above the ground. This can be seen in very different urban development and architectural decisions and it is really interesting stuff. I d argue that there is probably no other place where the different influences of the cold war can be seen in such close proximity.
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Wicket
Please stop calling it U-Bahn in english. It's just our word for subway. So call it that. Just like Autobahn is just the german word for motorway/freeway. I've been on U-Bahns not only in Berlin and Munich, but also in Vienna, Paris and NY. And I've been on Autobahnen in Austria, Italy, Croatia, France and Connecticut. Not that our roads weren't of much higher quality, they clearly are: )
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Please stop calling it U-Bahn in english. It's just our word for subway. So call it that. Just like Autobahn is just the german word for motorway/freeway. I've been on U-Bahns not only in Berlin and Munich, but also in Vienna, Paris and NY. And I've been on Autobahnen in Austria, Italy, Croatia, France and Connecticut. Not that our roads weren't of much higher quality, they clearly are: )
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Alexander
One thing I heard that was rather interesting was that the status of West Berlin as a city that basically existed to exist, maintained from the outside by subsidy money but isolated from its own country, it became a great place to be poor and make art. You could have a flat and some performance space or your own techno club for not a whole lot of money.
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One thing I heard that was rather interesting was that the status of West Berlin as a city that basically existed to exist, maintained from the outside by subsidy money but isolated from its own country, it became a great place to be poor and make art. You could have a flat and some performance space or your own techno club for not a whole lot of money.
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mlvln
Lot's of young men from West germany moved to West Berlin because they did not have to do military service there. So it created a place with lot's of pacifist and war opposers squatting empty houses to live and have social clubs. After the well fell they went to East Berlin and squatted even more places together with the local punk scene.
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Lot's of young men from West germany moved to West Berlin because they did not have to do military service there. So it created a place with lot's of pacifist and war opposers squatting empty houses to live and have social clubs. After the well fell they went to East Berlin and squatted even more places together with the local punk scene.
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Bike
Great video and very interesting to hear about all the municipal issues such as utilities and jobs/housing! It is crazy to think how recent this all was in our history and how many people take things for granted today. I don t have to think twice about using power and water and I won t have a wall pop-up before I get home from work!
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Great video and very interesting to hear about all the municipal issues such as utilities and jobs/housing! It is crazy to think how recent this all was in our history and how many people take things for granted today. I don t have to think twice about using power and water and I won t have a wall pop-up before I get home from work!
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nebr72
Very interesting. Thanks. I made quite a few trips to Berlin back in the wall days - never knew any of this about the utilities. (Except U-Bahn ghost stations that I had the chance to experience - also remember as a kid in 1964 watching the almost totally empty S-Bahn trains rolling through West Berlin.
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Very interesting. Thanks. I made quite a few trips to Berlin back in the wall days - never knew any of this about the utilities. (Except U-Bahn ghost stations that I had the chance to experience - also remember as a kid in 1964 watching the almost totally empty S-Bahn trains rolling through West Berlin.
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