Uploaded on 2018-09-16 by Lars Rybak

1) & 2) As Berlin´s population is rapidly growing, it is firstly capital – from to a high degree out-of-city origins – that is flowing into the city so as to develop new residential as well as commercial schemes. These increase the stock of built environment, of course, while ownership is often transferred to foreign entities thereafter, i.e. after the process of construction and renting is completed – a financial flow, so to speak. Secondly, people “flow in”, i.e. move to Berlin mostly from abroad (meaning domestic movement plays only a minor role). With (thirdly) density and thus rental levels constantly increasing, it can be observed that more and more people consider moving to the suburban areas and eventually do so. They flow out. 3) Although from 2016, the general statement of the attached map of rental levels published by the Berlin newspaper Berliner Zeitung is still valid and anything but a surprise: The closer you come to the city centre, the higher the rents get (except for the areas in the southwest which are traditional upper-class neighbourhoods). Hence, improvement of public transportation infrastructure so as to connect the surrounding districts will be crucial to avoid strains of physical flows