Capital City Cultures: Reconstructing contemporary Europe in Vienna and Berlin
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Bruxelles/Bern/Berlin/Frankfurt am Main/New York/Oxford/Wien, Peter Lang, 2011, Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes, 45
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DE FRANTZ, Monika, Capital City Cultures: Reconstructing contemporary Europe in Vienna and Berlin, Bruxelles/Bern/Berlin/Frankfurt am Main/New York/Oxford/Wien, Peter Lang, 2011, Europe plurielle/Multiple Europes, 45 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/23780
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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.
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Preface 9
INTRODUCTION. Capital Cities, Culture, and Political Change in Contemporary Europe 13
CHAPTER 1. European Capital Cities in Transition 31
CHAPTER 2. Reconstructing Capital City Cultures: The Museumsquartier in Vienna 67
CHAPTER 3. Reconstructing Capital City Cultures: The Schlossplatz in Berlin 113
CHAPTER 4. Comparing Capital City Cultures 179
Conclusion 210
Bibliography 221
Appendix 239
Index 259
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Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2004