(Anglo)phoning home from Berlin: a response to Alan Latham

Cochrane, Allan (2006). (Anglo)phoning home from Berlin: a response to Alan Latham. European Urban and Regional Studies, 13(4) pp. 371–376.

DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link:	https://doi.org/10.1177/0969776406069010
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Abstract

Alan Latham criticizes recent Anglophone writing on Berlin for reflecting a consensus position, which explains urban development with the help of a template defined by globalizing neo-liberalism. In some respects the points he makes are helpful. Berlin has been actively repositioned and re-imagined through an ambivalent process of 'normalization', which cannot be reduced to the rolling out of some global norm. However, there is a danger in this approach that Berlin is presented as somehow immune from the pressures of neo-liberalism and as providing the template of an alternative (European social-democratic) model.

Item Type:	Journal Item
ISSN:	0969-7764
Keywords:	Berlin; careful urban renewal; neo-liberalism; shrinking cities; social democracy; alternative futures; counter cultures
Academic Unit/School:	Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	OpenSpace Research Centre (OSRC)
Item ID:	7196
Depositing User:	Allan Cochrane
Date Deposited:	23 Mar 2007
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2016 09:59
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/7196
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