Overview

Cities divided by ethnic and cultural conflict need to identify, create and maintain some kind of shared identity amongst their inhabitants, if they wish to survive in competition with one another and not be submerged in tensions. Urban planning and city management can take these identities on board constructively and can assist them without allowing the city to deteriorate into a disconnected and hostile conglomeration. Belfast and Berlin are currently in the process of responding to this challenge: What will the implications be for town planners and how do they approach their task?

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Author:   W. Neill ,  H. Schwedler
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780333793688

ISBN 10:   0333793684
Pages:   231
Publication Date:   30 March 2001
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Memory, Spatial Planning and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Belfast and Berlin: An Overview; W.J.V.Neill The Urban Planning Context in Berlin: A City Twice Unique; H.U.Schwedler The Urban Planning Context in Belfast: A City Between War and Peace; W.J.V.Neill PART II: SPATIAL PLANNINGN AND URBAN DESIGN IN BERLIN AND BELFAST A Plan for Berlin's Inner City: Planwerk Innenstadt; W.Süchting & P.Weiss Struggle for the Inner City, or: A Plan Becomes a Declaration of War; S.Hain Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: Preserving the Architectural Legacy of the Inner City; C.Brett Architectural Ambivalence: The Built Environment and Cultural Identity in Belfast; M.McEldowney, K.Sterrett & F.Gaffikin PART III: CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN BERLIN AND BELFAST: CULTURAL QUARTERS WITHIN THE CITY Turkish Commercial and Business Activities in Berlin: A Case of Organic Urban Development and Contact; R.Müller Contacts and Conflicts over Worship and Burial in the Kreuzberg District of Berlin; P.Heine Remaking the City: The Role of Culture in Belfast; F.Gaffikin, M.Morrissey & K.Sterrett PART IV: PROMOTING THE CITY IN BERLIN AND BELFAST The Variety of Identities: Experiences from Berlin; B.Schneider Building a Shared Future: The Laganside Initiative in Belfast; M.Smith & K.Alexander The Cultural Inclusive City: The Belfast Potential; B.Morrison PART V: CONCLUSION Planning with an Ethic of Cultural Inclusion: Lessons from Berlin and Belfast; W.J.V.Neill & H.U.Schwedler Bibliography Index

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WILLIAM J. V. NEILL is Reader in Urban Planning in the Queen's University of Belfast. He is co-author of Reimagining the Pariah City: Urban Development in Belfast and Detroit (1995), and has published widely in the field of urban identity and city marketing. - HANNS-UVE SCHWEDLER is Managing Director of the European Academy of the Urban Environment in Berlin. His publications include works on urban development questions, in particular dealing with socio-spatial segregation in the Middle East.

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