Contents -- Preface 9 -- INTRODUCTION. Capital Cities, Culture, and Political Change in Contemporary Europe 13 -- CHAPTER 1. European Capital Cities in Transition 31 -- Capital Cities: Centres of Transforming States 31 -- Vienna: an Old Capital City in Transition 40 -- Berlin: a New Capital City in Transition 51 -- Capital City Cultures: A Comparative Research 62 -- CHAPTER 2. Reconstructing Capital City Cultures: The Museumsquartier in Vienna 67 -- The Project 67 -- Creative Intervention: Redefining Urban Culture 70 -- Cultural Heritage: Constructing the Future with the Past 73 -- Urban Governance: Responding to New Challenges 78 -- Urban Form: Locating Centre and Periphery 83 -- Symbolic Function: Giving Meaning to Aesthetics 86 -- Social Cohesion: Experimental Arts into Popular Museums 89 -- Management: Cultural Autonomy and Party Politics 93 -- Public Space: Open Access and its Restrictions 99 -- Spatial Frames: Beyond the National Cleavages 102 -- The Political Context: Actors, Interests, Coalitions 107 -- CHAPTER 3. Reconstructing Capital City Cultures: The Schlossplatz in Berlin 113 -- The Project 113 -- Creative Intervention: a Symbol of Reunification 116 -- Cultural Heritage: Selecting History for a New Beginning 120 -- Public Space: Social Integration in a Lively City-Centre 130 -- Urban Form: Re-centralizing a Polycentric Patchwork 132 -- Symbolic Function: a Disneyworld with Functionality 137 -- Social Cohesion: Contesting and Popularizing Elite Culture 143 -- Urban Governance: Claiming Power in the New Capital 149 -- Management: Limits to Public-Private Partnership 156 -- Spatial Frames: Europeanizing the New Capital City 163 -- The Political Context: Actors, Interests, Coalitions 170 -- CHAPTER 4. Comparing Capital City Cultures 179 -- Researching Urban Cultures 179 -- Urban Cultures as Diverse Contexts 188.

The Discursive Mobilization of Urban Cultures 196 -- The Discursive Structuration of Urban Institutions 201 -- Conclusion 210 -- Bibliography 221 -- Appendix 239 -- Index 259.