The Streets Echoed with Chants: The Urban Experience of Post-War West Berlin

How did the post-war context of West Berlin in the 1960s impact the student protest movement in the city? This book seeks to understand how the world was viewed by the students and how the urban space they were living in influenced their political viewpoint.

Laura Bowie is a Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. She has previously taught architectural history and theory at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, where she also completed her doctoral thesis. Her research interests include the city and protest, the radicalization of urban space, the relationship between urban planning and the psyche, and the use of memory and cultural outputs as exploratory tools.