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Postcard from Leipzig

January 2013July 2025

Being driven by a planner in an electric car out to a modernised  sewage works and a converted cotton mill that housed creative businesses showed me how much East German cities have changed since the Berlin Wall came down two decades ago. At the time Leipzig, Germany’s fourth largest city, lost 90% of its manufacturing…
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