Cities divided by ethnic and cultural conflict need to identify, create and maintain some kind of shared identity amongst their inhabitants, if they wish to survive in competition with one another and not be submerged in tensions. Urban planning and city management can take these identities on board constructively and can assist them without allowing the city to deteriorate into a disconnected and hostile conglomeration. Belfast and Berlin are currently in the process of responding to this challenge: What will the implications be for town planners and how do they approach their task?

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KYLE ALEXANDER Director of Development, Laganside Corporation, Belfast SIR CHARLES BRETT Chairman, Northern Ireland Housing Executive and Chair, International Fund for Ireland FRANK GAFFIKIN Co-Director, Urban Institute, University of Ulster SIMONE HAIN Freelance Writer and Historian of Urban Planning PETER HEINE Professor of Islamic Studies in the non-Arab world, Humboldt University, Berlin MALACHY McELDOWNEY Senior Lecturer, School of Environmental Planning, Queen's University, Belfast and Professor of Town and Country Planning BILL MORRISON Architect and Chief Planner with responsibility for the city of Belfast MIKE MORRISSEY Co-Director, Urban Institute, Belfast RENATE MÜLLER Geographer, Institute of Geography, Free University of Berlin BERNHARD SCHNEIDER Freelance Architect and Consultant MIKE SMITH Chief Executive, Laganside Corporation, Belfast KEN STERRETT Lecturer, School of Environmental Planning, Queen's University. Belfast WOLFGANG SÜCHTING Town Planner and Architect, Berlin Ministry of Urban Development PATRICK WEISS Town Planner, Berlin Ministry of Urban Development

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List of Illustrations Foreword Notes on the Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION Memory, Spatial Planning and the Construction of Cultural Identity in Belfast and Berlin: An Overview; W.J.V.Neill The Urban Planning Context in Berlin: A City Twice Unique; H.U.Schwedler The Urban Planning Context in Belfast: A City Between War and Peace; W.J.V.Neill PART II: SPATIAL PLANNINGN AND URBAN DESIGN IN BERLIN AND BELFAST A Plan for Berlin's Inner City: Planwerk Innenstadt; W.Süchting & P.Weiss Struggle for the Inner City, or: A Plan Becomes a Declaration of War; S.Hain Victorian and Edwardian Belfast: Preserving the Architectural Legacy of the Inner City; C.Brett Architectural Ambivalence: The Built Environment and Cultural Identity in Belfast; M.McEldowney, K.Sterrett & F.Gaffikin PART III: CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN BERLIN AND BELFAST: CULTURAL QUARTERS WITHIN THE CITY Turkish Commercial and Business Activities in Berlin: A Case of Organic Urban Development and Contact; R.Müller Contacts and Conflicts over Worship and Burial in the Kreuzberg District of Berlin; P.Heine Remaking the City: The Role of Culture in Belfast; F.Gaffikin, M.Morrissey & K.Sterrett PART IV: PROMOTING THE CITY IN BERLIN AND BELFAST The Variety of Identities: Experiences from Berlin; B.Schneider Building a Shared Future: The Laganside Initiative in Belfast; M.Smith & K.Alexander The Cultural Inclusive City: The Belfast Potential; B.Morrison PART V: CONCLUSION Planning with an Ethic of Cultural Inclusion: Lessons from Berlin and Belfast; W.J.V.Neill & H.U.Schwedler Bibliography Index