Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : European urban mindscapes : concepts, cultural representations and policy applications / Franco Bianchini
  • The gestalt of the urban imaginary / Rolf Lindner
  • Researching the urban imaginary : resisting the erasure of places / Jude Bloomfield
  • "An avenue that looks like me" : re-presenting the modern cityscape / Betty Nigianni
  • Urban mindscapes reflected in shop windows / Giandomenico Amendola
  • Encountering the city : on "not taking yourself with you" / Nicolas Whybrow
  • Strange city : Belfast Gothic / Neal Alexander
  • "Seeing the future" : urban dystopia in Wells and Lang / Keith Williams
  • Strangers (to) themselves : cityscapes and mindscapes in 1980s European cinema / Barry Langford
  • Once in TV's royal city : television coverage of royal media events / Hugh O'Donnell
  • Cartoons and the comic exposure of the European city of culture / Matthew Reason
  • Drifting bridges : semantic changes of the bridge metaphor in twentieth-century Budapest / Levente Polyák
  • Reconstructing the ancient city : imagining the Athenian polis / Stuart Price
  • The myth of Berlin : the imagined and the staged city / Klaus Siebenhaar
  • Berlin literature and its use in the marketing of the "New Berlin" / Godela Weiss-Sussex
  • Sites and sights : the urban museum in a changing urban structure / Doris Teske
  • Identity by invocation or design? : how planning is conjuring up a new identity for Malmö / Lia Ghilardi
  • Confessions of a place marketer / Paul Brookes ; interviewed by Franco Bianchini.