Abstract
Through examining the urban development of West Berlin, East Berlin and Hong Kong, this chapter investigates the various architectural and spatial forms built during the Cold War era as ‘translations’ and ‘representations’ of forms of ideological engineering. Focusing on the notion of Modernism, this chapter unveils the political ideologies behind the architecture in West Berlin and East Berlin, and observes the hybrid spatial typologies that emerged in Cold War Hong Kong. In so doing, the chapter demonstrates the apparent antagonistic political ideologies of the Western and Eastern Blocs in West and East Berlin and showcases their coexistence in Cold War Hong Kong as a meeting point between the East and the West.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Cold War Cities |
| Subtitle of host publication | The Politics of Space in Europe and Asia during the 1950s |
| Editors | Tze-ki Hon |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Chapter | 2 |
| Pages | 19-37 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780429058844 |
| ISBN (Print) | 13-978-0-367-17982-3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 507021 Urban history
- 605002 Cultural history
- 201201 History of architecture
- 201203 Architectural theory
Keywords
- Cold war cities