German gentrification

摘要

Tucked behind the grand facades along the old Stalinallee in East Berlin-Germany's "first socialist street"-was another Utopia. Graffiti-splashed Liebig-strasse 14 had ten flats, artists' studios, two washing-machines and 25 tenants who found room in Berlin for a way of life centred on sharing rather than striving. Films were screened free and half-litres of beer cost a euro. Hard-up residents could skip a few months' rent.