Experiencing Berlin’s East Spree riverfront means taking a walk on the edge between control and chaos! While the “Mediaspree” plan has proposed to bring in new media companies, global investors and corporate headquarters, citizens’ groups are fighting to maintain public access to the river and encourage affordable housing. These communities on the edges of Kreuzberg, Mitte and Friedrichshain were for decades restricted by the Berlin Wall that divided them. Now empty buildings and vacant lots are being
rediscovered. The last squats, beach bars and a variety of temporary projects are rapidly losing ground to new office, hotel and housing developments. The tour moves through this unique laboratory-situation and invites you to consider the opportunities for a sustainable future. Explore a range of urban gardening and farming projects, riverfront beach bars and clubs, old and new collaborative housing projects and much more. The Spree Tour can be on foot, with a bicycle or even with a boat!
