Hello! I have been looking for a read that tackles the urban impact of the wall on the city of Berlin during its existence and after its destruction in 1990, but I haven't been lucky enough to find something that talks about this exact subject. Any suggestions?
It sounds like the book you're looking for is Berlin: The Spatial Structure of a Divided City by T. H. Elkins. The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape by Brian Ladd covers the more troublesome aspects of German memory on Berlin's urban landscape. The article "Squatting and Urban Renewal: The Interaction of Squatter Movements and Strategies of Urban Restructuring in Berlin" by Andrej Hol and Armin Kuhn was part of a special issue on squatting and examines one aspect of post-1961 West Berlin that sometimes gets lost amid discussion of the West Berlin. Paul Hockenos's study Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic An Alternative History of Postwar Germany likewise illustrates this aspect of West Berlin. Finally, both Evgeny Vinokurov A Theory of Enclaves and the anthology Walls, Borders, Boundaries: Spatial and Cultural Practices in Europe provide a good theoretical grounding on the nature of an enclave like Berlin.