The Globalized City Economic Restructuring and Social Polarization in European Cities

Edited by Arantxa Rodriguez and Erik Swyngedouw

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS

List of Contributors xi List of Plates xv List of Figures xvii List of Tables - xix List of Abbreviations 0 xxi

Introduction 1 Erik Swyngedouw, Frank Moulaert, and Arantxa Rodriguez

1. 'The World in a Grain of Sand': Large-Scale Urban Development Projects and the Dynamics of 'Glocal' Transformations 9 Erik Swyngedouw, Frank Moulaert, and Arantxa Rodriguez

2. Urban Restructuring, Social-Political Polarization and New Urban Policies 29 Arantxa Rodriguez, Erik Swyngedouw, and Frank Moulaert

3. Large-Scale Urban Development Projects, Urban Dynamics, and Social Polarization: A Methodological Reflection 47 Frank Moulaert, Arantxa Rodriguez, and Erik Swyngedouw

4. The Olympic Village: A Redevelopment Marathon in Greater 65 Pa vlos-Marinos Delladetsima

5. Gambling Politics or Successful Entrepreneurialism? The Orestad Project in 91 John Andersen

6. Facing Fiscal Crisis: Urban Flagship Projects in 107 Hartnnit Hciufiermann and Katja Simons

1. Old Elites in a New City: Restructuring the Leopold Quarter and the Europeanization of 125 Guv Baeten x Contents 8. Competitive City: Governance and the Changing Dynamics of Urban Regeneration in 145 Brendan Bart ley and Kasey Treadwell Shine

9. Modernizing or Polarizing ? 167 Vanessa Redak, Andreas Novy, and Joachim Becker

10. Restructuring Cities: Miracles and Mirages in Urban Revitalization in Bilbao 181 Arantxa Rodriguez and Elena Martinez

11. Urban Development for Competitiveness and Cohesion: The Expo 98 Urban Project in 209 Joao Cabral and Berta Raw

12. Business as Usual: The Naples Business District (Centro Direzionaledi Napoli) 229 Serena Vicari Haddock

13. The Contradictions of Urbanizing 247 Erik Swyngedouw, Frank Moulaert, and Arantxa Rodriguez

Index 267