Abstract

The atlas describes phenomena of today's mobility - and reveals their inner contradictions using the example of Berlin. Mobility is defined broadly. It deals with the movement patterns of bicycle couriers as well as drug dealers, tourists and deportation prisoners. Burning cars, foxes that have been run over and unfinished motorway bridges are mapped, as well as the flight routes over Berlin, the locations of Wagenburgen and the distribution of Porsches registered in Berlin. In addition to these maps, interviews with street musicians, hitchhikers, homeless people, truck drivers, brothel operators and mobile sausage fryers provide a deeper insight into mobility cultures, documented in photographs by Olaf Unverzart and reflected in essays by Stephan Rammler, Harald Welzer and Gereon Uerz, among others.The volume is published in cooperation with the initiative ÜBER LEBENSKUNST, a project of the German Federal Cultural Foundation in cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

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