Berlin is growing, pushing further and further to the periphery. Open spaces, commercial and production areas in outer districts such as Lichtenberg are increasingly being competed for by both businesses and creative industries. Herzbergstraße is one of the areas where such different interests meet.

The fact that land is as necessary to life as air and water means its use should not be subjected to the glaring folly of free forces and individual will. What can we do? Not much, because there is no alternative but to politicize land. A lot, because everyone else has failed to do so until now.