{"id":3611,"date":"2009-12-14T09:46:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T09:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2009-12-14T09:46:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T09:46:56","slug":"berlins_class_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3611","title":{"rendered":"Berlin&#8217;s Class War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/2584050a-d960-11de-b2d5-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=672232c6-1385-11de-9e32-0000779fd2ac.html\">Feargus O&#8217;Sullivan<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Twenty years after it was toppled, the area around the Berlin Wall is becoming a battle\u00adground again. In the streets neighbouring Berlin\u2019s Todesstreifen \u2013 the once heavily guarded \u201cdeath strip\u201d on the east side \u2013 a new conflict is brewing. This time, it is between wealthy newcomers to the German capital\u2019s regenerated core, and less monied residents, who fear being displaced.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br>Silvia Kollitz, an anti-development activist, is a resident of Prenzlauer Berg, a once dilapidated but now chic district of east Berlin. She feels her local area, with its pretty, tree-lined streets and sleek caf\u00e9s, is being turned into a refuge for the rich. \u201cThe new buildings being put up are just for people with lots of money \u2013 who don\u2019t use state schools and look at the rest of us as \u2018local colour\u2019 from behind their locked gates and high walls,\u201d she says.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nWhile Kollitz and fellow activists are seeking to halt these changes, they are fighting a strong tide. For the first time since the second world war, Berlin is attracting the international wealthy. Shaking off its gloomy cold war past, the city\u2019s rebuilt centre is now packed with designer emporia, five-star hotels \u2013 Berlin has more than New York \u2013 and restaurants, sandwiched between Prussian palaces and new ministry buildings.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/2584050a-d960-11de-b2d5-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=672232c6-1385-11de-9e32-0000779fd2ac.html\">Feargus O&#8217;Sullivan<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Twenty years after it was toppled, the area around the Berlin Wall is becoming a battle\u00adground again. In the streets neighbouring Berlin\u2019s Todesstreifen \u2013 the once heavily guarded \u201cdeath strip\u201d on the east side \u2013 a new conflict is brewing. This time, it is between wealthy newcomers to the German capital\u2019s regenerated core, and less monied residents, who fear being displaced.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br>Silvia Kollitz, an anti-development activist, is a resident of Prenzlauer Berg, a once dilapidated but now chic district of east Berlin. She feels her local area, with its pretty, tree-lined streets and sleek caf\u00e9s, is being turned into a refuge for the rich. \u201cThe new buildings being put up are just for people with lots of money \u2013 who don\u2019t use state schools and look at the rest of us as \u2018local colour\u2019 from behind their locked gates and high walls,\u201d she says.<br \/>\n<br \/><Br><br \/>\nWhile Kollitz and fellow activists are seeking to halt these changes, they are fighting a strong tide. For the first time since the second world war, Berlin is attracting the international wealthy. Shaking off its gloomy cold war past, the city\u2019s rebuilt centre is now packed with designer emporia, five-star hotels \u2013 Berlin has more than New York \u2013 and restaurants, sandwiched between Prussian palaces and new ministry buildings.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,41,33,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}