Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser ; Berlin : Springer, 2004.

Description:

304 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plans ; 28 cm

Notes:
Published in association with the International Network for Urban Research and Action.
"Berlin, Bruxelles/Brussel, Firenze, London, Toronto, Zürich"--Cover.
Includes section on Toronto.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

Summary:

Berlin, Brussels, Florence, London, Toronto, Zurich - fascinating western metropolises which are all sophisticated icons of international commerce, finance, tourism, though in very different ways. Striking appearances and successful structures are, however, only one side of the reality. On the shadow side, there are the insidious changes which have come about primarily for reasons of quick profit and consumerism; social and ethnic ghettos are on the increase. Yet in all these cities there are forces which are facing up to these supposedly irreversible developments and which must be taken seriously. INURA - an International Network for Urban Research and Action - published Possible Urban Worlds in 1998 to draw attention to contemporary urban renewal. Now they are publishing Contested Metropolis which looks at these six cities, presenting the most important critics and alternative urban projects.

ISBN:

3764300868 (pbk.)
9783764300869 (pbk.)

Subject:

Cities and towns Social aspects.
Cities and towns Social aspects Case studies.
City and town life.
Urban renewal.
City and town life Case studies.
Urban renewal Case studies.
Urban renewal Ontario Toronto.
Urban Renewal
Villes Aspect social.
Villes Aspect social Études de cas.
Vie urbaine.
Rénovation urbaine.
Vie urbaine Études de cas.
Rénovation urbaine Études de cas.
Rénovation urbaine Ontario Toronto.
urban renewal.
Ontario Toronto

Form/genre:

Case studies

Added entries:

Paloscia, Raffaele, 1951-
INURA (Organization)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231487
Call No.: HT119.C6 2004
Status: Available