Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Foreword Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Memory, Spatial Planning and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Belfast and Berlin: An Overview; W.J.V.Neill The Urban Planning Context in Berlin: A City Twice Unique; H.U.Schwedler The Urban Planning Context in Belfast: A City Between War and Peace; W.J.V.Neill PART II: SPATIAL PLANNINGN AND URBAN DESIGN IN BERLIN AND BELFAST A Plan for Berlin's Inner City: Planwerk Innenstadt; W.Süchting & P.Weiss Struggle for the Inner City, or: A Plan Becomes a Declaration of War; S.Hain Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: Preserving the Architectural Legacy of the Inner City; C.Brett Architectural Ambivalence: The Built Environment and Cultural Identity in Belfast; M.McEldowney, K.Sterrett & F.Gaffikin PART III: CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN BERLIN AND BELFAST: CULTURAL QUARTERS WITHIN THE CITY Turkish Commercial and Business Activities in Berlin: A Case of Organic Urban Development and Contact; R.Müller Contacts and Conflicts over Worship and Burial in the Kreuzberg District of Berlin; P.Heine Remaking the City: The Role of Culture in Belfast; F.Gaffikin, M.Morrissey & K.Sterrett PART IV: PROMOTING THE CITY IN BERLIN AND BELFAST The Variety of Identities: Experiences from Berlin; B.Schneider Building a Shared Future: The Laganside Initiative in Belfast; M.Smith & K.Alexander The Cultural Inclusive City: The Belfast Potential; B.Morrison PART V: CONCLUSION Planning with an Ethic of Cultural Inclusion: Lessons from Berlin and Belfast; W.J.V.Neill & H.U.Schwedler Bibliography Index

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KYLE ALEXANDER Director of Development, Laganside Corporation, Belfast SIR CHARLES BRETT Chairman, Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Chair, International Fund for Ireland FRANK GAFFIKIN Co-Director, Urban Institute, University of Ulster SIMONE HAIN Freelance Writer and Historian of Urban Planning PETER HEINE Professor of Islamic Studies in the non-Arab world, Humboldt University, Berlin MALACHY McELDOWNEY Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental Planning, Queen's University, Belfast and Professor of Town and Country Planning BILL MORRISON Architect and Chief Planner with responsibility for the city of Belfast MIKE MORRISSEY Co-Director, Urban Institute, Belfast RENATE MA LLER Geographer, Institute of Geography, Free University of Berlin BERNHARD SCHNEIDER Freelance Architect and Consultant MIKE SMITH Chief Executive, Laganside Corporation, Belfast KEN STERRETT Lecturer, School of Environmental Planning, Queen's University. Belfast WOLFGANG SA CHTING Town Planner and Architect, Berlin Ministry of Urban Development PATRICK WEISS Town Planner, Berlin Ministry of Urban Development

About the Author

WILLIAM J. V. NEILL is Reader in Urban Planning in the Queen's University of Belfast. He is co-author of Reimagining the Pariah City: Urban Development in Belfast and Detroit (1995), and has published widely in the field of urban identity and city marketing. - HANNS-UVE SCHWEDLER is Managing Director of the European Academy of the Urban Environment in Berlin. His publications include works on urban development questions, in particular dealing with socio-spatial segregation in the Middle East.