In this episode we start in the 1960s. Berlin was the center of a rising youth and protest culture and as the 70s began, a failed urban renewal policy stripped the city and provided the perfect environment for the start of what we consider to be the modern squatting movement in Berlin.

We trace the evolution of counter culture events, the rise of communal living, and the evolution of squatting as a political and social movement as it takes over and transforms the fabric of West Berlin in ways that remain to this day.

\ FURTHER READING AND EXPLORING

\amazing book we love - Vasudevan, A., (2015), “Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin”, Wiley-Blackwell
\azozomox and Kuhn, A. “The History and Cycles of Squatting in Berlin (1969–2016)
\Martínez López, M. (2017), “The Urban Politics of Squatters' Movements”, Palgrave Macmillan US, The Pennsylvania University Press

\Karapin, R. (2007), “Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s”,

\Scott Brown, T. (2013), “West Germany and the Global Sixties: The Anti-Authoritarian Revolt, 1962–1978”, Cambridge University Press

\our favorite map - berlin-besetzt

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