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Berlin Journals—On the History and Present State of the City #11
X Properties
English edition
Joerg Franzbecker, Naomi Hennig, Florian Wüst
Berlin’s real estate market is still booming, neighborhoods are “developed,” people are forced out of their living environments. Residential, work and commercial spaces become investments for real estate corporations, trust funds, and anonymous owners, while a politicized tenants’ movement demands the right to the city for all. But who are the real players behind the economic exploitation of urban space? What allows them to act the way they do—and how can their actions be politically and societally monitored, controlled, and thwarted?
X Properties examines the impact of financial capital on the social and cultural production of the city, its forms of relationality and subjectivity. With texts by Christian (Syndikat collektive), Christoph Casper, Jana Gebauer, Kathrin Gerlof, Katrin Lompscher, Louis Moreno, Raquel Rolnik & Isadora Guerreiro & Paula Freire Santoro, and Pheli Sommer, combining case studies from Berlin with global perspectives on the de-/financialization of the city.
Produced on the occasion of X Properties. On the De-/Financialisation of the City, nGbK, 2022
160 pages, with photographs by Kim Bode

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