The contested metropolis : seven cities at the beginning of the 21st century / Raffaele Paloscia (ed.).

Published in association with the International Network for Urban Research and Action.

Introduction / Raffaela Paloscia -- 0. Achievable utopias -- 0.1. Practicing utopia : sustaining cities / Leonie Sandercock -- 0.2. The local project : summing up a political vision / Alberto Megnaghi -- 1. Berlin : from metropolust to metropolost -- 1.1. Introduction / Constance Carr and Ute Lehrer -- 1.2. Berlin : re-unified but not in one piece / Constance Carr -- 1.3. Reality or image? Place selling at Potsdamer Platz / Ute Lehrer -- 1.4. From solidaricity to segregatiotown / Volker Eick -- 1.5. Alternative publics : between repression and emancipation / Ahmed Allahwala and Constance Carr -- 1.6. Subculture : pioneer for music industry or counterculture? / Ingo Bader -- 2. Brussels/Bruxelles : tale of a fragmented city -- 2.1. From a multicultural and fragmented city towards the "mediterranean" capital of Europe? / Stefan De Corte, Eric Corijn and Walter De Lannoy -- 2.2. Neighbourhood-contracts : towards participatory planning? / Stefan De Corte and Christine Goyens -- 2.3. In the Ground : convivial culture in Brussels / Mane-Eve Cosemans -- 2.4. The universal embassy / Tristan Wibault -- 2.5. The Zinneke parade : an artistic citizens' parade? / Myriam Stoffen -- 3. Firenze : insurgent city -- 3.1. Contested places : stories and geographies from another florence / Giancarlo Paba -- 3.2. The abrogated city / Lorenzo Tripodi -- 3.3. Urbanb transgression beyond the geography of transgressive spaces / Giovanni Allegretti -- 3.4. Urban geographies, colored networks, new social practices / Camilla Perrone -- 3.5. Rights and fights. Urban movements in Florence / Marvi Maggio -- 3.6. Planning stupidity and children's intelligence / Anna Lisa Pecoriello -- 3.7. Insurrections in the history of Florence / Gabriele Corsani -- 4. London : un-contested capital? -- 4.1. Introduction / Michael Edwards -- 4.2. Action for equality / Louanne Trancheli, Ayar Ata, Joyce Wade and Clive Wren -- 4.3. Grassroots activity in London - new perspectives / Penny Koutrolikou -- 4.4. Wealth creation and poverty creation : global-local interactions in the economy of London / Michael Edwards -- 4.5. Community participation and urban regeneration : King's Cross and the "Elephant and castle" / Michael Parkes -- 4.6. Vision for London - a project for a contested metropolis? / Esther Caplin -- 4.7. Neighbourhood regeneration : a view from the local state / Bob Colenutt -- 5. Toronto : outside the glamour zones -- 5.1. "Substitute city" / Roger Keil -- 5.2. Toward a new suburhan dream / Karen Wirsig -- 5.3. Image-making by the water : global city dreams and the ecology of exclusion / Susannah Bunce and Douglas Young -- 5.4. Poverty of planning : tent city and the new official plan / Adrian Blackwell and Kanishka Goonewardena -- 5.5. Creole city : culture, capital and class in Toronto / Kanishka Goonewardena and Stefan Kipfer -- 5.6. In lieu of a conclusion : beyond the competitive city? / Stefan Kipfer and Roger Keil -- 6. Zurich : from paranoia city to ego city -- 6.1. A new paradigm of urban development for Zurich / Christian Schmid -- 6.2. Postindustrial Zurich - 15 years in search of a new paradigm of public planning / Andreas Hofer -- 6.3. The new metropolitan mainstream / Christian Schmid and Daniel Weiss -- 6.4. Creative and innovative microenterprises : between subculture and world economy / Philip Klaus -- 6.5. KraftWerk 1 - more than just nice living / Andreas Wirz -- 6.6. The rise and fall of great railway station redevelopments : the case of eurogate / HB sudwest / Richard Wolff -- Afterword : the spirit of Inura / Fred Robinson -- An Alternative urban world is possible : a declaration for urban research and action.

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