ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways of living and working enabled by the conditions in Berlin. During the period immediately following the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German Parliament was transferred from Bonn to Berlin, and the unified East and West Berlin became one Land or region. Banking had been based in Frankfurt rather than Berlin during the post-war period, a situation unlikely to change. Berlin also had to contend with large-scale de-industrialisation; 80 per cent of manufacturing jobs disappeared before 1992, and more were lost during the course of the 1990s. Natascha Sadr Haghighian described the 1990s Berlin club scene as a temporary suspension of class hierarchies, similar to Sarah Thornton's study of UK club culture as the forestalling of what Bourdieu terms social ageing'. However, Berlin also has access to few resources, and so the attractiveness of creative industries policies in the city need to be understood in terms of the comparatively few resources they require.
