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The empty space at Potsdamerplatz once symbolically defined and became defining of Berlin, simultaneously a striking memorial of Cold War as well as Nazi Berlin. By the beginning of the 1990s however, global capital was already occupying the emptiness at the city's heart. If Wenders was right in proclaiming that "the Americans have colonised our subconsciousness" (The Logic of Images, 1992, p 98) capitalism has colonised time and space in the city as well as in people’s hearts and minds. Even the citizen is reduced to a consumer, tourists in their own backyard.