Postcard from East Germany – Just do something! May 2014July 2025 The amazing revival of East German cities such as Leipzig and Dresden in Saxony offers important lessons for towns in Britain that have lost their economic roles and suffered from the resulting physical dereliction and unemployment. After decades of alien rule by the Nazis and then the Soviet Union, reunification in 1990 at an over…
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…
