Abstract

The atlas describes the phenomena of today's mobility - and uses the example of Berlin to reveal its inner contradictions. Mobility is broadly defined. It deals with the movement patterns of bicycle couriers as well as drug dealers, tourists and deportation prisoners. Burning cars, run-over foxes and unfinished motorway bridges are mapped, as well as the flight routes over Berlin, the locations of caravan parks and the distribution of Porsches registered in Berlin.
In addition to these maps, interviews with street musicians, hitchhikers, homeless people, lorry drivers, brothel operators and mobile sausage fryers provide an in-depth insight into mobility cultures, which are documented in photographs by Olaf Unverzart and reflected in essays by Stephan Rammler, Harald Welzer and Gereon Uerz, among others.