TY - BOOK AU - Paloscia,Raffaele ED - INURA (Organization) TI - The contested metropolis: seven cities at the beginning of the 21st century SN - 3764300868 U1 - 307.76 21 PY - 2004/// CY - Basel, Berlin PB - Birkhũser, Springer KW - Cities and towns KW - Social aspects KW - Case studies KW - City and town life KW - Urban renewal N1 - 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 ER -