Abstract
Political decisions divided postwar Berlin and isolated West Berlin politically from its immediate environment of East Germany and spatially from West Germany. These political circumstances have had a permanent impact upon the city's locational infrastructure. The growing peripherality of West Berlin to West German life has reduced the scope of activity in the city's public and private sectors. In Berlin itself the separation of east from west required the construction of new municipal facilities in both. The split, together with wartime damage and postwar dismantling, sharply reduced the functions of its old core area, located in what is now East Berlin near the West Berlin border. In its place have emerged separate core areas in West and East Berlin, as revealed by patterns of construction, land use, traffic, and population movement. Planners in the two Berlins are no longer able to coordinate their activities to work toward a reunified city.
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