Scene: Berlin Techno, 2000s

By philip sherburne

Berlin couldn't have turned out more remarkably had Italo Calvino merely imagined it as one of the improbable burghs of his book Invisible Cities. When the wall that divided it for 28 years finally came down in 1989, Berlin underwent an anarchic renaissance that has left it unlike any other western capital. Reunification gave the world a city full of empty buildings and abandoned lots but almost no industry - just politics and culture, pent-up energy… more »