Some Helpful Books

These are all pretty cheap. Excuse the ads--buy them where you will. Amazon is quick, has most everything (often "used" or new), and happens to autolink to Blogger.

 1. Looking back, sorting through the debates on Nazi "legacy" buildings in post-war Berlin, and their gradual de-toxing over time, Ladd's "Ghosts" is good. Not everyone may love it cover to cover, but the index gets you to specific topics, sometimes scattered topically vs. chronologically. (Also available in Kindle format).

2. Looking forward, on how to design NEW government buildings in a more democractic spirit, try Wise's "Captiol Dilema."

3.  For a detailed architectural guide to the new (and old) Berlin, with large cross referenced maps, this is excellent, but hard to find. (This 2000 original is still useful, but now dated. Several more recent guides are listed--which I don't know. Anyone have a current take?).
 
 Amazon still lists this as "unavailable."
 Berlin: Open City: The City on Exhibition

 The 2005 update is temporarily "unavailable," too.
Berlin: open city. The City on Exhibition. The guide. (Berlin: offene Stadt).

This German language edition was very expensive when I first posted this, but a few cheap copies are now listed. Perhaps others are available from European sources.