As part of the summer research trip to Berlin in June 2015, a group of faculty and students from across Harvard joined the landscape architect and historian Sonja Dümpelmann for a tour of three main parks in Berlin. It started with the Natur-Park Südgelände occupying the site of former industrial railway near the Berlin Priesterweg station in Schöneberg. The group continued in the direction of a site which after the reunification of Berlin has regained some of its pre-war central status: Gleisdreieck Park, designed by the German landscape firm Atelier LOIDL. The tour concluded with an exploration of Tempelhofer Feld – a public park occupying most of the former Tempelhof airport’s vast area.