Table of Contents

 

Editors’ Note

Special Issue, The Dreams and Nightmares of City Development
Guest Editors, Olsi Lelaj and Nebi Bardhoshi

Introduction—The Dreams and Nightmares of City Development:
Urban Planning, Ideologies and Social Movements in Contemporary Cities
Olsi Lelaj and Nebi Bardhoshi

Re-interpreting National Ideology in the Contemporary Urban Space of Astana
Nelly Bekus and Kulshat Medeuova

Urban Transformations, Ideologies of Planning and Actors’ Interplay
in a Booming City-Austin, Texas
Marie Le Guen

Landscapes of Globalization in Ordinary Towns: Logistics and Trade Apparatus
Fabrice Raffin, with Oliver Pollet

Transforming Places, Changing Deities: Forms of Spatial and Symbolic Negotiation in Marseille
Maria Elena Buslacchi

Institutional Actors in Action: Building Governance in the City
Paola De Vivo

Youth in Ramallah: Internal Fragmentation under Occupation
Mariangela Gasparotto

Cities and the Ideology of Cultural Participation:
A Discussion with Reference to the ‘Opening-up’ of Museums
Bella Dicks