Urbanism and Globalization

Contents : Dieter Hassenpflug: Germany, Weimar and the Bauhaus: A Micro-Analysis of Globalization - Frank Eckardt: Urbanism and Globalization: Introduction - Peter Hall: European cities in a global world - Olga Mrinska: Ukrainian Cities as a Gateway to the Global Innovative Economy - Mark Jayne: Globalization and third-tier cities: the European experience - Peter Marcuse: The Dark Side of Really Existing Globalization - Margarida Marques/Rui Santos: Welfare and Immigrants' Inclusion in a Context of Weak Civil Society: Associations and local politics in Oeiras (Lisbon) - Lionel Arnaud/Gilles Pinson: Shaping the identity and mobilising the "ethnic capital" in three European cities - Leeke Reinders: Baby Bronks: Place and Identity in a Parisian Banlieue - Tuomas Martikainen: The houses of foreign gods - John Eade: Living the globalising city: globalisation in the context of European urban development - Jana Temelová/Hedvika Hrychová: Globalisation, Eyes and Urban Space: Visual Perception of Globalising Prague - Carl Fingerhuth: Learning from "CHINA" or Urban design beyond modern time - Paul Kennedy: Linking the local and the global: transnational architects in a globalizing world - Alexander Tölle: Large-Scale Urban Waterfront Developments as an Integral Part of the Metropolitan Transformation Process: Case Studies from Lyon, Hamburg, and Gdansk - Monika de Frantz: The 'new' Berlin: multiple spatial conceptions of the capital city in the 'Palast der Republik'/'Stadtschloss' debate - Marco Bontje: Towards a sustainable post-suburbia? The sustainability of new economic centres in European metropolitan regions - Luiza Bialasiewicz: A society to match the scenery: ordering the spaces of the Veneto città diffusa - Alexander Horstmann: City of Angels? Lives and Struggles of Migrants in Bangkok - Karine Dupré: Globalisation and Urbanism: the case of a European peripheral region, Guadeloupe.

The Editors: Frank Eckardt is Lecturer in Urban Sociology at the Institute for European Urban Studies at the University of Weimar.
Dieter Hassenpflug is the Director of this institute and a Professor for Sociology and Social History of the City.