Abstract
The reunification of Germany in October 1990 brought together two major cities -East and West Berlin - that bad evolved under very different political and economic systems throughout the post-war period. Eight years after the reuniting of the divided city it is possible to start to evaluate the extent to which elements of convergence are appearing. Many social indicators in the former East Berlin are still distinctively different from those in the West, but the effects of the former Wall are being dissolved in the spatial distribution of certain social phenomena. Particular attention is paid here to the growth of immigrant numbers in East Berlin, and to signs of gentrification in the former communist city. However, the nature of the built environment produced over the past 50 years is such that whatever the signs of convergence, differences between East and West Berlin are likely to remain strong for some time to come.
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