2006 - Deconstructing ‘Metropolis’: Critical Reflections on a European Concept (original) (raw)

At least since the 1980s, and particularly in Germany and wider Europe, the concept metropolis1 has become central importance and notoriety within the urban discourses. Reproduced in the titles of books, conferences, seminars, articles, journals, newspapers, walking tours, magazines, and certainly at the core of the self-descriptions that many cities produce of themselves, the metropolis has become a key concept for transmitting a sense of economic resurgence, urbanity, new urban lifestyles and a renewed city.