Urban Planning and Cultural Inclusion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Memory, Spatial Planning and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Belfast and Berlin — an Overview

      • William J. V. Neill

      Pages 3-23

   3. The Urban Planning Context in Berlin: a City Twice Unique

      • Hanns-Uve Schwedler

      Pages 24-41

   4. The Urban Planning Context in Belfast: a City Between War and Peace

      • William J. V. Neill

      Pages 42-53

3. Spatial Planning and Urban Design in Berlin and Belfast

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. A New Plan for Berlin’s Inner City: Planwerk Innenstadt

      • Wolfgang Süchting, Patrick Weiss

      Pages 57-68

   3. Struggle for the Inner City — a Plan Becomes a Declaration of War

      • Simone Hain

      Pages 69-84

   4. Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: Preserving the Architectural Legacy of the Inner City

      • C. E. B. Brett

      Pages 85-99

   5. Architectural Ambivalence: the Built Environment and Cultural Identity in Belfast

      • Malachy McEldowney, Ken Sterrett, Frank Gaffikin

      Pages 100-117

4. Cultural Diversity in Berlin and Belfast: Cultural Quarters within the City

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Turkish Commercial and Business Activities in Berlin: a Case of Organic Urban Development and Contact

      • Renate Müller

      Pages 121-133

   3. Contacts and Conflicts over Worship and Burial in the Kreuzberg District of Berlin

      • Peter Heine

      Pages 134-140

   4. Remaking the City: the Role of Culture in Belfast

      • Frank Gaffikin, Michael Morrissey, Ken Sterrett

      Pages 141-162

5. Promoting the City in Belin and Belfast

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163

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   2. The Variety of Identities — Experiences from Berlin

      • Bernhard Schneider

      Pages 165-176

   3. Building a Shared Future: the Laganside Initiative in Belfast

      • Mike Smith, Kyle Alexander

      Pages 177-193

   4. The Culturally Inclusive City: the Belfast Potential

      • Bill Morrison

      Pages 194-204

6. Conclusion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205

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   2. Planning with an Ethic of Cultural Inclusion: Lessons from Berlin and Belfast

      • William J. V. Neill, Hanns-Uve Schwedler

      Pages 207-215

Cities divided by ethnic and cultural conflict need to identify, create and maintain some kind of shared identity amongst their inhabitants, if they wish to survive in competition with one another and not be submerged in tensions. Urban planning and city management can take these identities on board constructively and can assist them without allowing the city to deteriorate into a disconnected and hostile conglomeration. Belfast and Berlin are currently in the process of responding to this challenge: What will the implications be for town planners and how do they approach their task?

• city
• Design
• environment
• identity
• memory
• planning
• spatial planning
• town
• urban development
• urban planning
• urban geography and urbanism
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

  William J. V. Neill

• European Academy of the Urban Environment, Berlin, Germany

  Hanns-Uve Schwedler

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 MÜLLER 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 SÜCHTING Town Planner and Architect, Berlin Ministry of Urban Development PATRICK WEISS Town Planner, Berlin Ministry of Urban Development

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