Abstracts of Papers

Thomas Bender:
Toward a New Metropolitanism and a Pluralized Public?

Helmut Berking:
Local Frames and Global Images: Hierarchy, Negation, and the Diffusion of Urban Knowledge

Beate Binder, Péter Niedermüller:
The "New Berlin": Reconstructing the Past and Envisioning the Future

Ayse Caglar:
Entanglements in public sphere in Berlin: media, advertisement industries and the state

Gary Gumpert and Susan Drucker:
The Sidewalks of New York (and Suburbia): Security and Surveillance

Manfred Faßler:
The Mediamorphosis of the City

Ulf Hannerz:
Foreign Correspondents as Flaneurs: Journalists' Views of Urban Life in the Global Ecumene

James Holston:
Insurgent Urbanism

Heinz Ickstadt:
City, Circuit, and Conspiracy in Jospeh McElroy's Lookout Cartridge (1974) and Don DeLillo's Players (1977)

Brian Ladd:
Urban Design, Place Memory, and Resistance to Globalization in Berlin

Mario Maffi:
What the Lower East Side Taught (and Teaches)?

Margit Mayer:
New Spaces of Difference and the Politics of Social Inclusion in Berlin

Donald Pease:
Borderlands, Discourse and New York City Planners' Urban Revitalization Discourse in Orson Welles's A Touch of Evil

John Carlos Rowe:
Interpellation, Urbanization, and Globalization in John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer (1925)

Bernhard Schneider:
Parameters of Urbanism - Public Cultures, Urban Knowledges, and City Planning (Panel Discussion)

Elizabeth Strom, John Mollenkopf:
Talking And Doing: Discourse and Development in New York and Berlin

Steven Vertovec:
Fostering Cosmopolitanism: A Conceptual Survey and a Media Experience in Berlin