That is a special place and showcase for what went wrong in The West by Industrialization. The spot is the very Center of Berlin. It is the main Underground hub, meets the S-Bahn, has a railway station and is home to a main landmark.
It is also surrounded by the main East-West connecting road being a Boulevard throughout.
The place was designed as it is today by the Eastern German Stalinist administrations and advertised as the socialist Berlin social center and meeting point. During day time that place was busy. The national assembly was close by, Russian Soldiers in Representative Uniform visited and tourists frequented coming from West Berlin with locals really meeting.
At night the place was empty. The East did not know a party scene.
The West taking over started rebuilding the place, struggled and still has not created any main spot like Piccadilly Circus in London or the Champs Elysee in Paris anywhere in Berlin. The excuse was and is that Berlin had three centers. The Western Kurfürstenstrasse at the Wilhelm Gedächtnis Kirche with Euro Center, the renovated Potsdamer Platz, which gets some respect for the most Cyberpunk creation ever and this Alexander Platz.
The City and La Defense do not know, but they are actually a bit jealous. So, would you grap Potsdamer Platz and turn it Corporate Extraterritorial as the very first spot?
And a rooftop heli port connection to a private runway.
The problem is that the town itself has not enough citizens to populate next to the quarters also the main places at night. That leads to a loop. While La Defense and Canary Wharf attract as planned only a few tourists at night being office and therefore dedicated work centers, therefore rejecting the night life idea for these places except to lonesome silent activities, Berlin failed to turn all spots possible into their beloved noisy high frequented places. Those are stretched out over town bound to Clubs and Bars within residential quarters.
Paris, London and Amsterdam would be great places to test Nocturnem places by keeping for example parks open. Vondelpark or Parc André-Citroen would be great places of real nocturnem life, that is not based on amphetamine or just unhealthy amounts of confine, as among the Germans.
Being awake into night times, means that the accepted 9 to 5 rhythm is shifted by a few hours. That means, some of us become naturally awake not at about 6 to 7, but 12 to 13. The shift continues like that and therefore their evening, after work, looking for Diner and recreation to relaxing and ending the "day" is also shifted later. You just watch the stars over traffic jams.
Sadly, the Drug Users managed to shift themselves into all positions ruling and creating night time activities.
All over Europe.
Fuck You All in The War on Drugs. Yours, the all sober.
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