A recent opinion article of the New York Times Looks at cases of of a few divided cities (past and present) throughout the world including Laredo, Texas/Nuevo Laredo, Mexico; Berlin; Nicosia; Jerusalem; Valka, Latvia/Valga, Estonia; and Mitrovica, Serbia/Kosovo. Numerous others come to mind in more or less literal senses (neighborhoods in New York and Chicago, Beirut, many Bosnian cities, neighborhoods in Belfast, Korea, etc.). I found the opinion article to be biased and over generalized, suggesting that, in the case of Berlin, the almost complete dismantling of the wall and building of Potsdammer Platz in it's place represents that the city has moved forward from division simply by building over the past. Meanwhile, it was difficult for him to see Jerusalem ever being a capital of two states due to the severe 'extension of Isreal's security' when in fact the line represents the one drawn and recognized internationally to protect the sovereignty of two people...
I've booked my ticket to visit Berlin for the first time in Late February and I am looking forward to analyzing how this city moved past its previously divided self.
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