Town planning in the new Berlin

It is described town planning in Berlin, which may be subdivided into three phases. The first one (1990-1995), after the collapse of the wall, was one of great elation, of great projects and great speculation, especially in the city centre and for office blocks, but it was also a phase of great uncertainty about how to plan the ‘new Berlin’. The second one (1995-1999) was rather that of disillusionment: after the big projects came the plans and, at least on paper, the emphasis was on producing houses, also to limit the migration of high-income families to the suburban areas. The third phase (1997-2007), lastly, is characterized by some degree of stagnation, in the centre and in the suburban territories, as all over Germany.