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1 Squats, Squares and City Plans : Berlin by Accident and Design Mitra Anderson-Oliver , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Griffith Review , no. 69 2020; (p. 238-245) Walking along Berlin's River Spree one hot summer's day in 2019, I happened upon a little garden. It was fenced, but a welcome sign sat at the open gate, along with an A4 flier advertising an upcoming workshop on Thymian & Fenchel -Eintritt frei. A large sculpture against the fence piqued my curiosity and I ventured in. The work was impressive: two large, semi-translucent curved walls cupping Into each other, surrounded by a (murky) pool. More exciting was what lay beyond: overflowing banks of sunflowers and tomato plants, table tennis, sunchairs, a sandpit, a little wooden caravan, painted bench seats and even an ecotoiletten. I approached a young man busy at the potting shed and asked for the story. This land, he told me, was owned by Berlin's major power provider, Vattenfall. The company's central heating plant was just beyond the fence, and an incarnation of one of Berlin's more famous nightclubs, Kraftwerk, occupied Vattenfall's redundant 1960s power station just next door.' (Introduction) 
 
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