The Many Faces of Berlin U-Bahn Line U7
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The Many Faces of Berlin U-Bahn Line U7
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#2It's been soon a year since I've been in that U-bahn line. I live close to the Karl-Marx-Straße station and before the pandemic I definitely visited every station of that line as weekend activity throughout the years I've been in Berlin.
An old colleague of mine told me his father used to travel that line from Rudow to Spandau every morning to work, and in the evening back home again. That trip is almost two hours completely underground.
Lucky we are, working from home and not needing to commute anymore...
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#3This line, which far too long for its own good and sort-of meanders through space, is quite the example of “political geography”.
The typography this article focuses on is a microcosm of how the place reminds you of its history, including both the beauty and whimsical, as well as the crimes against kerning and/or humanity.
May Berlin forever resist uniforms and uniformity.
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#5This line, which far too long for its own good and sort-of meanders through space, is quite the example of “political geography”. The typography this article focuses on is a microcosm of how the place reminds you of its history, including both the beauty and whimsical, as well as the crimes against kerning and/or humanity. May Berlin forever resist uniforms and uniformity.
Thank you for your comment. It is like a fine New Yorker article in very short form.
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#6This line, which far too long for its own good and sort-of meanders through space, is quite the example of “political geography”. The typography this article focuses on is a microcosm of how the place reminds you of its history, including both the beauty and whimsical, as well as the crimes against kerning and/or humanity. May Berlin forever resist uniforms and uniformity.
Thank you for your comment. It is like a fine New Yorker article in very short form.
I too was surprised by how much I enjoyed an article about such a niche yet mundane subject.
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#7As an artist I actually like the crazy colorful tiles signs.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for your comment. It is like a fine New Yorker article in very short form.
I too was surprised by how much I enjoyed an article about such a niche yet mundane subject.
This thread made me read this article. I think if I had visited without I wouldn't have got past the first paragraph. Really glad I read it. Strangely joyful.
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#9My favourite thing about U7 is the Jungfernheide station. It sort of quite bland and even neglected but... it hides an extra platform that was supposed to connect centre of the city with Berlin Airport (now sadly closed).
The station also used to connect to Siemensbahn which is a totally dilapidated and forgotten train line with a huge historical significance for the city.
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#10A sort of spiritual counterpart (capitalist/communist, yin/yang, Luke/Vader, take your pick) to U7 is U5, the only line built by East Germany:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U5_(Berlin_U-Bahn)
Colored what a friend of mine calls scheisse brown, it sprouts out of central East Berlin (Alexanderplatz) far out into the countryside, with forests, fields and dense clusters of commieblocks tightly packed around stations.