Abstract
Architecture and democracy have never coexisted without friction. The rebuilding of West Germany after World War II demonstrates the tensions between the more elitist concept of architecture and the populist notion of democracy. Architecture "for the people" has been tried in the capital of Bonn, in the Laender and in the big cities—with little success. Architecture with the participation of the people has been widely experimented with in Germany from early reconstruction communities to new anomic forms of the squatters sites.
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