Exploring a city through its infrastructure? Not as nerdy as you might think! The power cables and water pipes under your feet can teach us a lot about the past, present and future of a city —you just need to take a closer look…  

Urban historian and infrastructure scholar Tim Moss has created a guided audio tour along the pre-1920 border of Berlin to visit exciting examples of infrastructure which shaped the unification of Greater Berlin 100 years ago. You will visit five sites of energy and water infrastructure and hear stories about how these systems were used as a tool for urban expansion, unification and modernization in the 1920s. You will also learn how these examples can be relevant to current-day efforts to render energy and water systems more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable. Tim draws on his book ‘Remaking Berlin. A History of the City through Infrastructure, 1920-2020’ (MIT Press, 2020) which captures Berlin’s turbulent history over the past 100 years and reinterprets it through the lens of urban technology.

Credits
Audio tour developed by Timothy Moss and Pauline Münch, "IRI THESys" 
Images by Timothy Moss and Pauline Münch

This tour will cover all the main places from Berlin's early history and through the growth of Prussia under Frederick the Great - and on through the Nazi period -and then the Cold War when Berlin became a global focus. It's all in here from the Brandenburg Gate to the Reichstag, Hitler's bunker, the Holocaust Memorial, and ending at Checkpoint Charlie.

Credits
Audio tour developed by "HeartBeat Guides" and powered by IZI.travel