Also, if you are using an electric saw in your apartment in the middle of the city at any time of day, you are probably a bad neighbor.
I think a lot of the question is going to be, is your goal to work with wood and make things in general, or do you have specific sorts of things you want to make?
There is really no limit to what you can make by skillfully assembling small pieces of wood into large panels, but it's a lot easier to make inlaid wood boxes in an apartment than bookshelves and desks.
A lot of the woodworking you see is furniture making, which typically involves a lot of dimensional lumber and large wood panels which are easiest worked with table saws, planers, joiners and routers, and a large shop and lots of machinery is a boon.
But inlay, woodcarving and even scrollsaw work can be done with smaller pieces of wood and little or no power tools.
I use power tools only during working hours and try to never go over a cumulative hour of use per day. In Berlin at least I think it's fine, this city has a DIY-ish culture, lots of apartments have homemade furniture, and the sound of electric tools is a common one.
You know your neighborhood and neighbors and apartment construction better than I do, but the caution is always that not everyone keeps the same working hours -- night shift sleeps during the day, small children and infants nap throughout the day, etc.
I think a lot of the question is going to be, is your goal to work with wood and make things in general, or do you have specific sorts of things you want to make?
There is really no limit to what you can make by skillfully assembling small pieces of wood into large panels, but it's a lot easier to make inlaid wood boxes in an apartment than bookshelves and desks.
A lot of the woodworking you see is furniture making, which typically involves a lot of dimensional lumber and large wood panels which are easiest worked with table saws, planers, joiners and routers, and a large shop and lots of machinery is a boon.
But inlay, woodcarving and even scrollsaw work can be done with smaller pieces of wood and little or no power tools.