CONTENTS -- Authors in this volume -- Introduction. European Urban Mindscapes: Concepts, Cultural Representations and Policy Applications -- METHODOLOGY AND CONCEPT FORMATION -- The Gestalt of the Urban Imaginary -- Researching the Urban Imaginary: Resisting the Erasure of Places -- 'An Avenue that Looks Like Me': Re-presenting the Modern Cityscape -- Urban Mindscapes Reflected in Shop Windows -- Encountering the City: On 'Not Taking Yourself With You' -- CULTURAL REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY -- Strange City: Belfast Gothic -- 'Seeing the Future': Urban Dystopia in Wells and Lang -- Strangers (to) Themselves: Cityscapes and Mindscapes in 1980s European Cinema -- Once in TV's Royal City: Television Coverage of Royal Media Events -- Cartoons and the Comic Exposure of the European City of Culture -- Drifting Bridges: Semantic Changes of the Bridge Metaphor in Twentieth-Century Budapest -- Reconstructing the Ancient City: Imagining the Athenian Polis -- APPLICATIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF URBAN MINDSCAPES -- The Myth of Berlin: the Imagined and the Staged City -- Berlin Literature and its Use in the Marketing of the 'New Berlin' -- Sites and Sights: the Urban Museum in a Changing Urban Structure -- Identity by Invocation or by Design? How Planning is Conjuring up a New Identity for Malmö -- Confessions of a Place Marketer.