D. Bocquet, P. Laborier
Sociology of Berlin
La Découverte, 2016, 128 p. (Coll. Repères)
Transformed by the huge construction projects that made it the capital of unified Germany in 1991, Berlin quickly became a magnet for a new European bohemian crowd.
Today, it is reinventing a new way of being a capital city, balancing its legacy of social policies that have long been considered models in Europe with the evolution of its model of diversity governance. It is slowly managing to reduce mass unemployment, but part of the population remains trapped in the social welfare system.
The neighborhoods that were once the epicenter of student protests are no longer immune to gentrification and speculation.