Navigating electricity dependencies in Cold War Berlin: an instructive history of urban infrastructure security
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Abstract This article explores how political division manifested itself in the electricity systems of West and East Berlin analyses strategies both throughout 40 years Cold War. It reveals goal full energy independence propagated by proved illusory for material, geopolitical, institutional, economic environmental reasons. Apart from vestiges past interdependence, pressures to collaborate gained impetus 1970s onwards. The experience, concludes, generates lessons navigating socio-technical in-/interdependencies over infrastructures geopolitically contested contexts highlighting material politics urban history.
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عنوان ژورنال: Urban History
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1469-8706', '0963-9268']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926823000500