Stock Photo - FILED - 01 January 1980, Berlin: Berlin districts / Kreuzberg / renovation / 1980 Kreuzberg, Mariannenstrasse / Skalitzer Strasse. These blocks are to be torn down, a Kreuzberger turns them into art. Shortly before, American soldiers had practiced in the block house combat. The decay of whole blocks is deliberate. Speculators make money out of it. Squatters and riots finally force a change of policy. Urban renewal will be - carefully -, i.e. as much as possible stops. Leading architect Hardt-Walter Haemer, who also renovates this block / Art / Art / Demolition / Districts / Housing / Town planning *** Local Caption *** Housing politics. Parts of Kreuzberg were left to decay. Speculants wanted to build new houses for better profit. In this block american soldiers had had manoevers. After violent riots politicians were forced to change the concept. These blocks are still there, renewed. A man makes the best of the ruins: fine art Photo: Paul Glaser/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB. - Berlin/Berlin/Germany