Gentrification in Prenzlauer Berg. Who pays the price?

Pre-University Paper from the year 2024 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, grade: 1,0, , language: English, abstract: Expensive cars. Big apartments. Fancy restaurants. Then, turning around you see homeless on the streets. Starving children living in tents. Being there for a big part of my childhood I have realised how big the gap between rich and poor is and I especially noticed that on a trip to Prenzlauer Berg. And there I wondered: Do the rich and powerful people care about the rest of the population? As other cities, Berlin went through multiple crises and recovered by developing their economy and increasing their prices, especially in rent. For many people, the modernisation and improvement of the city had advantages, but who did not profit?Thus this skilled work will deal with the topic