The contested metropolis : seven cities at the beginning of the 21st century /
Raffaele Paloscia (ed.).
- 301 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Published in association with the International Network for Urban Research and Action.
Introduction / Achievable utopias -- Practicing utopia : sustaining cities / The local project : summing up a political vision / Berlin : from metropolust to metropolost -- Introduction / Berlin : re-unified but not in one piece / Reality or image? Place selling at Potsdamer Platz / From solidaricity to segregatiotown / Alternative publics : between repression and emancipation / Subculture : pioneer for music industry or counterculture? / Brussels/Bruxelles : tale of a fragmented city -- From a multicultural and fragmented city towards the "mediterranean" capital of Europe? / Neighbourhood-contracts : towards participatory planning? / In the Ground : convivial culture in Brussels / The universal embassy / The Zinneke parade : an artistic citizens' parade? / Firenze : insurgent city -- Contested places : stories and geographies from another florence / The abrogated city / Urbanb transgression beyond the geography of transgressive spaces / Urban geographies, colored networks, new social practices / Rights and fights. Urban movements in Florence / Planning stupidity and children's intelligence / Insurrections in the history of Florence / London : un-contested capital? -- Introduction / Action for equality / Grassroots activity in London - new perspectives / Wealth creation and poverty creation : global-local interactions in the economy of London / Community participation and urban regeneration : King's Cross and the "Elephant and castle" / Vision for London - a project for a contested metropolis? / Neighbourhood regeneration : a view from the local state / Toronto : outside the glamour zones -- "Substitute city" / Toward a new suburhan dream / Image-making by the water : global city dreams and the ecology of exclusion / Poverty of planning : tent city and the new official plan / Creole city : culture, capital and class in Toronto / In lieu of a conclusion : beyond the competitive city? / Zurich : from paranoia city to ego city -- A new paradigm of urban development for Zurich / Postindustrial Zurich - 15 years in search of a new paradigm of public planning / The new metropolitan mainstream / Creative and innovative microenterprises : between subculture and world economy / KraftWerk 1 - more than just nice living / The rise and fall of great railway station redevelopments : the case of eurogate / HB sudwest / Afterword : the spirit of Inura / An Alternative urban world is possible : a declaration for urban research and action. Raffaela Paloscia -- Leonie Sandercock -- Alberto Megnaghi -- Constance Carr and Ute Lehrer -- Constance Carr -- Ute Lehrer -- Volker Eick -- Ahmed Allahwala and Constance Carr -- Ingo Bader -- Stefan De Corte, Eric Corijn and Walter De Lannoy -- Stefan De Corte and Christine Goyens -- Mane-Eve Cosemans -- Tristan Wibault -- Myriam Stoffen -- Giancarlo Paba -- Lorenzo Tripodi -- Giovanni Allegretti -- Camilla Perrone -- Marvi Maggio -- Anna Lisa Pecoriello -- Gabriele Corsani -- Michael Edwards -- Louanne Trancheli, Ayar Ata, Joyce Wade and Clive Wren -- Penny Koutrolikou -- Michael Edwards -- Michael Parkes -- Esther Caplin -- Bob Colenutt -- Roger Keil -- Karen Wirsig -- Susannah Bunce and Douglas Young -- Adrian Blackwell and Kanishka Goonewardena -- Kanishka Goonewardena and Stefan Kipfer -- Stefan Kipfer and Roger Keil -- Christian Schmid -- Andreas Hofer -- Christian Schmid and Daniel Weiss -- Philip Klaus -- Andreas Wirz -- Richard Wolff -- Fred Robinson -- 0. 0.1. 0.2. 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4. 1.5. 1.6. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. 2.4. 2.5. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. 3.5. 3.6. 3.7. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. 4.5. 4.6. 4.7. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. 5.5. 5.6. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. 6.6.
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