Berlin between old walls and new
The German capital, even without 'that' wall, finds ways to shut out the world.
A quarter of a century on from the fall of the wall, the segments still standing continue to divide Berlin and are somehow representative of a city caught between future and past, between property speculation and the right to housing, art and rubble, increasingly international yet hardly cosmopolitan.
Some of the remaining parts of the wall were demolished last year in order to enable construction of a luxury apartment complex.
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