Capital City Cultures
Reconstructing Contemporary Europe in Vienna and Berlin
©2012
Monographs
269 Pages
Series:
Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes, Volume 45
Summary
Global market competition and the political responses to globalization transform urban societies and states, and thus the cultures of capital cities in contemporary Europe. Vienna’s cultural district Museumsquartier and the planned Humboldt Forum on Berlin’s Schlossplatz illustrate two of the most controversial sites of urban reconstruction in Central Eastern Europe since the 1990s.
Tracing the processes of their political emergence through more than a decade of heated public debates, this book narrates the metaphor-rich and engaging stories about these old European capitals facing change. It compares the reconstruction of political legitimacy and its cultural symbols from two different local perspectives of European state transformation.
This enquiry into urban culture highlights the diversity of contemporary cities and their political potential for change.
Tracing the processes of their political emergence through more than a decade of heated public debates, this book narrates the metaphor-rich and engaging stories about these old European capitals facing change. It compares the reconstruction of political legitimacy and its cultural symbols from two different local perspectives of European state transformation.
This enquiry into urban culture highlights the diversity of contemporary cities and their political potential for change.
Details
- Pages
- 269
- Publication Year
- 2012
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783035261639
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9789052017396
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-0352-6163-9
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2012 (April)
- Keywords
- Central Eastern Europe, state transformation, political legitimacy, Vienna, Berlin, institutions, social constructivism. Urban culture city marketing discourse local politics, Contemporary Europe capital city
- Published
- Bruxelles, Bern, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011. 269 pp., num. ill. and tables
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