Görlitzer Park
Reclaimed railway wasteland turned green park, caught in a real urban drug-policy experiment.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Gorlitzer Park in Berlin starts with pale pink lines that appeared painted across the paths in 2019, before tracing the ground's own layered history: a bombed-out railway station, a Cold War dead zone beside the Wall, and a park built by squatters and neighbors in the early 1980s. It follows a park manager named Cengiz Demirci, and the years of patrols and zero-tolerance policing that came before his idea. Look for the boxes and dashes still faintly visible near the park's gates.
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