Financial Competition, Risk and Accountability: British and German Experiences

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Memory, Spatial Planning and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Belfast and Berlin — an Overview....Pages 3-23
The Urban Planning Context in Berlin: a City Twice Unique....Pages 24-41
The Urban Planning Context in Belfast: a City Between War and Peace....Pages 42-53
Front Matter....Pages 55-55
A New Plan for Berlin’s Inner City: Planwerk Innenstadt....Pages 57-68
Struggle for the Inner City — a Plan Becomes a Declaration of War....Pages 69-84
Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: Preserving the Architectural Legacy of the Inner City....Pages 85-99
Architectural Ambivalence: the Built Environment and Cultural Identity in Belfast....Pages 100-117
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
Turkish Commercial and Business Activities in Berlin: a Case of Organic Urban Development and Contact....Pages 121-133
Contacts and Conflicts over Worship and Burial in the Kreuzberg District of Berlin....Pages 134-140
Remaking the City: the Role of Culture in Belfast....Pages 141-162
Front Matter....Pages 163-163
The Variety of Identities — Experiences from Berlin....Pages 165-176
Building a Shared Future: the Laganside Initiative in Belfast....Pages 177-193
The Culturally Inclusive City: the Belfast Potential....Pages 194-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Planning with an Ethic of Cultural Inclusion: Lessons from Berlin and Belfast....Pages 207-215
Back Matter....Pages 216-231