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The Re-Shaping of Berlin
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The Re-Shaping of Berlin

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1. Urban Models – spot the difference

In many ways Berlin is quite like the ‘concentric ring’ model for cities. But while it was divided from 1945 to 1991, strange things happened. Look at diagrams A and B and then try to put the 14 descriptions in the right place in the grid.

Diagram A Berlin’s land use zones 1940
Diagram B Berlin 1990

1. The city is twice the size it was.
2. There is one CBD.
3. There are two CBDs.
4. There is a long corridor of derelict land.
5. There is one airport.
6. There are three airports.
7. The derelict land is there because of the river.
8. There is a very high percentage of farmland and forest.
9. There is a nearly complete ring of twentieth century housing and commercial land.
10. The derelict land follows the route of the Berlin Wall.
11. There are four sectors of industrial land.
12. An Industrial Zone heads north-east out of the city.
13. There are two extra administrative regions in West Berlin.
14. The Euro Disney theme park is in what was formerly East Berlin.

A Berlin in 1940

B Berlin in 1990

Untrue