Now you hear echoes among teenagers who never set foot in Kreuzberg.

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From the viewing platform, visitors are encircled by the 15m-high and 60m-long view, from the neighbourhood of Kreuzberg in the west to the Mitte district in the east, with the iconic spike of the Fernsehturm television tower, smoke-belching factories and dilapidated houses dominating the horizon.

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As artists and students have been gradually priced out of traditional inner-city areas such as Kreuzberg, Friedrichshain, Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg, this southwesterly district has become a haven for the annual hordes of newcomers seeking refuge in its relatively cheap rents, transformed ateliers and bars and burgeoning creative community.

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