Squatting Inwards Due East & W Berlin

West Berlin has a long tradition of civil, grassroots political action. One of the clearest demonstrations of this tradition is the good established squatter crusade inwards the city. After the Fall: Socio-Spatial Movements inwards East Berlin plots the place as well as meaning dates of civil activity inwards both East as well as West Berlin.

Significant instances of civil activity are plotted on the map using 2 colors. The yellowish markers present 'socio-spatial movements' from earlier the autumn of the Berlin Wall as well as the bluish markers those which occurred later the fall. The ruby-red trace of piece of job on the map shows the seat of the Berlin Wall.

The map demonstrates how earlier the collapse of the Berlin Wall this crusade of civil activity was largely confined to West Berlin. However since the reunification of Deutschland the eastern one-half of the metropolis has too seen a ascent inwards civil action, especially inwards the growing squatting movement.


The information for the After the Fall map comes from Berlin Besetzt. Berlin Besetzt is a map showing the locations of squats inwards Berlin from 1970 to the introduce day. You tin sentiment all the houses that bring been squatted inwards this menses or yous tin role the appointment slide command to sentiment the history of squatting inwards Berlin over the concluding few decades.

Using the appointment command it appears that 1981 was the golden historic menses for squatters inwards Berlin. This map too clearly shows the ascent of squatting inwards eastward Berlin later the autumn of the Berlin Wall. The map too reveals that Kreuzberg has remained a really pop expanse for Berlin squatters for to a greater extent than that xxx years.