East Germany’s adoption of the Sixteen Principles of Urban Design and their materialization in the ‘showcase housing project’, the Stalinallee, brought an abrupt end to the initially joint post-WWII experiments in the aesthetics and politics of modernism. Hans Scharoun’s vision for Great Berlin, which was based on egalitarian and democratic principles, was to find itself in the dustbin of post-WWII German history before it could grow roots. Certainly, as this chapter will show, in West Berlin in particular and West Germany (the Federal Republic of Germany, FRG) more generally modernism continued to dominate urban planning and architecture. Yet after 1949, modernism was largely stripped of its politically radical thrust, including its questioning of capitalism. Kanishka Goonewardena’s equation – ‘modernism – revolution = modernization’ (2009) became a reality in West Germany (no less than in East Germany) and West Germany’s showcase housing project for the new liberal society to come – the Hansa Quarter – bears evidence to this reality (see section 5.1). In fact, West German housing policies embodied an embrace of a specific variant of liberal capitalism – an early, neoliberal version of it. In the FRG, social housing was never meant to remain decommodified for the long term. Instead, it was expected to constitute an intermediary step towards what was then conceived as the ‘truly’ ideal form of dwelling: the single family home.