Introduction : Can Leipzig still be saved? -- Survival and Despair in Dystopia -- Urban Ingenuity in the System -- Utopian Visions in 1988 -- Urban Ingenuity Underground -- The City as Stage in Revolution -- Epilogue : Continuities in "The Saved City."
Summary
"This book shows how civic life functioned in East Germany's second-largest city on the eve of the 1989 Revolution by uncovering illegal and semi-legal acts of 'urban ingenuity' amid catastrophic urban decay"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis
East Germany, 1989 Revolution, urban planning, civic initiative, late Communism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
In English
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2020)