In terms of urban form, the border condition has its advantages precisely in its instabilities, dangers, and ugliness. The regained German capital’s lingering spatial instabilities and discontinuous histories have lent it an ultimately destabilizing ethos. The New Berlin’s official planning strategy of telos-oriented Critical Reconstruction has been to downplay precisely these legacies. We may well wonder how long Berlin’s border condition will be able to continue in the face of an official return to the “European City”-credo as the architectural expression of a political normalization for the reunified nation. Nonetheless, the re-formed yet recalcitrant Berlin still displays a “frontier anxiety”—a sense of its own fragile exceptionalism even as its Wall-era has been paved over; an attempted cover-up of the city’s more significant heritage of repeated brokenness. As long as the city’s marketing efforts remain focused more on an effect-ridden superstructure rather than on changes in the actual urban base, Berlin’s border condition remains clearly, and obstinately, marked.