West Berlin has a long tradition of civil, grassroots political action. One of the clearest demonstrations of this tradition is the good established squatter campaign inwards the city. After the Fall: Socio-Spatial Movements inwards East Berlin plots the place in addition to pregnant dates of civil activeness inwards both East in addition to West Berlin.
Significant instances of civil activeness are plotted on the map using 2 colors. The yellowish markers exhibit 'socio-spatial movements' from earlier the autumn of the Berlin Wall in addition to the bluish markers those which occurred afterwards the fall. The reddish draw 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 campaign of civil activeness was largely confined to West Berlin. However since the reunification of Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany the eastern one-half of the urban gist has too seen a ascent inwards civil action, peculiarly 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 sack stance all the houses that convey been squatted inwards this menstruum or y'all tin sack purpose the appointment slide command to stance the history of squatting inwards Berlin over the final few decades.
Using the appointment command it appears that 1981 was the golden historic menstruum for squatters inwards Berlin. This map too clearly shows the ascent of squatting inwards due east Berlin afterwards the autumn of the Berlin Wall. The map too reveals that Kreuzberg has remained a real pop expanse for Berlin squatters for to a greater extent than that 30 years.
