New Europe: Imagined Spaces traces the radical transformation of European places and spaces over the last two decades.
Autorentext
Donald McNeill is Associate Professor at the Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney. He is the author of Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona (Routledge, 1999).
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Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Europeanisation of Europe
Europe as a political project
The invention of Europe
Holiday driving
Brussels as capital of Europe
Europe and its others: America, Islam, and enlargement
Conclusion
2 Europe and the nation
Representing the nation
The national routine
Global media flows and national identities
Euro Disney
Rebranding the nation
Urban landscapes and national identity
Europeanising the nation
Conclusion
3 Regional renaissance
A Europe of the Regions?
Why the resurgence of regional identities?
Global or local? Regionalism as a political project
The Bilbao Guggenheim
Conclusion
4 A Europe of the Cities?
The European city: 4 approaches
The City and the street
Transnationalism and the European city
Mayors and city politics
The Vatican and Global Catholicism
Disembedding cities: football and television
Conclusion
5 Travelling Europeans
Discursive mobilities
Corporeal travel
Tourists
Geographies of speed and movement
Conclusions
6 Borderlands and barriers
Schengenland and EuropeâEUR(TM)s external borders
Concepts of the border
The Berlin Wall
Cross-border regions
The Channel Tunnel
Bridges
Conclusions
7 Metroworld
EuropeâEUR(TM)s metroworld
MasperoâEUR(TM)s âEUR~Roissy ExpressâEUR(TM)
Roadscapes
Consumer landscapes
Airports
Conclusions
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