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City West and Schöneberg
Lying immediately southwest of Berlin's Tiergarten, City West was once
West Berlin's downtown but has now reverted to its prewar role as a high-
end shopping area. It's focused on the famed Kurfürstendamm (or Ku'damm)
and the adjoining Tauentzienstrasse where various showcase Cold War-era
building projects still give the place a distinctive feel. Away from the main
roads lie some of Berlin's smartest inner-city residences, which are attracting
Russian investors in droves and which gather around attractive leafy squares
such as Savignyplatz, the area's dining and café-culture hub. City West largely
covers the most central portion of the immense, moneyed, white and rather
sedate Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district, but on its eastern fringes it also
spreads into Schöneberg, where Nollendorfplatz forms the gateway to
Berlin's long-standing and world-famous gay village.
