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Chapter 16Strategien Für Kreuzberg: Relocating the Urban Regeneration Debates into the Neighbourhood

Florian Kossak

A competition’s background

Any Berlin visitor taking the short stroll through the lively Wrangelstrasse in the heart of Kreuzberg will associate it with the quintessential Berlin street. Lined with five-storey-high tenement buildings, the formerly infamous Mietskasernen (rental barracks) from the last two decades of the 19th century features a particular Kreuzberger Mischung, a functional mixture of residential with shops and small workshops at ground level facing the street, and smaller production places in the courtyards and part of the upper floors of the back buildings.

Almost halfway along Wrangelstrasse one passes Oppelner ...