The Editors: Frank Eckardt is working as an urban sociologist at the European Urban Studies programme of the Bauhaus University Weimar, where he is the local organizer of the European Cities in Transition Conference Series. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kassel in political science.Dieter Hassenpflug is Professor for Sociology and Social History of the City at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He studied economics, sociology and philosophy at the Free University Berlin and Kassel University. He was a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin, the Berlin College of Economics, Kassel University and at the University of Frankfurt. He is Spiritus Rector of the postgraduate European Urban Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar and director of the EuroConferences Series «The European City in Transition» at Weimar 2001-2003.

• Contents: Frank Eckardt: Consumption and the Post-Industrial City (Introduction) – Dieter Hassenpflug: City and Consumption – Derek Wynne/Justin O’Connor: Consumption and the Postmodern City – Sako Musterd: Four pictures of the Post-Industrial City – François Ascher: The Third Urban Revolution of Modernity – John Clammer: Culture and Consumption in the Post-Industrial City – Louise Nyström: Quality of Urban Life in Europe in the 21st Century – Anna Karwiñska: Social and Spatial Transformations in Polish Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century – Iskara Dandolova: Deurbanisation in Bulgaria: Challenges of Transition and Sustainable Development – Maria Manuela Mendes: Cities «Archipelago» in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon – Steven Miles: Consuming Cities; Consuming Youth: Young People’s Lifestyles and the Appropriation of Cultural Space – Pase Mäenpää: Cultural Urbanisation of Helsinki: consumption, mobile phones and new ideal of planning – Martina Boese: Manchester’s Cultural Industries: A Vehicle of Racial Ex-/Inclusion? – Isabelle Fremeaux/David Garbin: «Community», Multi-culturalism and the Diasporic Negociation of Space and Identity in the East End of London – José Mapril: Transnational Jade Formations of the Translocal Practices of Chinese Immigrants in a Lisbon Innercity Neighbourhood – Svetlana Tchervonnaia: The Moscow of the 21st Century - Ethnic and Confessional Colour of a Post-industrial City – Albrecht Göschel: Local Community Identity Policy - Market Strategy, Cultural Education or the Home of the Citizens? – Malcolm Miles: Consuming Culture: Affluence and Social Space in the New Barcelona – Carlos J. L. Balsas: The Return to Downtown - Initial Reflections on the European Capital of Culture, Porto 2001 – Volker Kirchberg: Manifest and Latent Functions of Museums in the Post-Industrial City: A Taxonomy – Lucyna Nyka: Recycling Gdańsk’s Urban Spaces: the Processes Supporting the Identity of the City – Mija Bajic Brkovic: E-Communication and E-Services in Urban Management: Current Trends and Development Perspectives in Yugoslav Cities.

The Editors: Frank Eckardt is working as an urban sociologist at the European Urban Studies programme of the Bauhaus University Weimar, where he is the local organizer of the European Cities in Transition Conference Series. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kassel in political science.Dieter Hassenpflug is Professor for Sociology and Social History of the City at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He studied economics, sociology and philosophy at the Free University Berlin and Kassel University. He was a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin, the Berlin College of Economics, Kassel University and at the University of Frankfurt. He is Spiritus Rector of the postgraduate European Urban Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar and director of the EuroConferences Series «The European City in Transition» at Weimar 2001-2003.

• Contents: Frank Eckardt: Consumption and the Post-Industrial City (Introduction) – Dieter Hassenpflug: City and Consumption – Derek Wynne/Justin O’Connor: Consumption and the Postmodern City – Sako Musterd: Four pictures of the Post-Industrial City – François Ascher: The Third Urban Revolution of Modernity – John Clammer: Culture and Consumption in the Post-Industrial City – Louise Nyström: Quality of Urban Life in Europe in the 21st Century – Anna Karwiñska: Social and Spatial Transformations in Polish Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century – Iskara Dandolova: Deurbanisation in Bulgaria: Challenges of Transition and Sustainable Development – Maria Manuela Mendes: Cities «Archipelago» in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon – Steven Miles: Consuming Cities; Consuming Youth: Young People’s Lifestyles and the Appropriation of Cultural Space – Pase Mäenpää: Cultural Urbanisation of Helsinki: consumption, mobile phones and new ideal of planning – Martina Boese: Manchester’s Cultural Industries: A Vehicle of Racial Ex-/Inclusion? – Isabelle Fremeaux/David Garbin: «Community», Multi-culturalism and the Diasporic Negociation of Space and Identity in the East End of London – José Mapril: Transnational Jade Formations of the Translocal Practices of Chinese Immigrants in a Lisbon Innercity Neighbourhood – Svetlana Tchervonnaia: The Moscow of the 21st Century - Ethnic and Confessional Colour of a Post-industrial City – Albrecht Göschel: Local Community Identity Policy - Market Strategy, Cultural Education or the Home of the Citizens? – Malcolm Miles: Consuming Culture: Affluence and Social Space in the New Barcelona – Carlos J. L. Balsas: The Return to Downtown - Initial Reflections on the European Capital of Culture, Porto 2001 – Volker Kirchberg: Manifest and Latent Functions of Museums in the Post-Industrial City: A Taxonomy – Lucyna Nyka: Recycling Gdańsk’s Urban Spaces: the Processes Supporting the Identity of the City – Mija Bajic Brkovic: E-Communication and E-Services in Urban Management: Current Trends and Development Perspectives in Yugoslav Cities.

The Editors: Frank Eckardt is working as an urban sociologist at the European Urban Studies programme of the Bauhaus University Weimar, where he is the local organizer of the European Cities in Transition Conference Series. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kassel in political science.Dieter Hassenpflug is Professor for Sociology and Social History of the City at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He studied economics, sociology and philosophy at the Free University Berlin and Kassel University. He was a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin, the Berlin College of Economics, Kassel University and at the University of Frankfurt. He is Spiritus Rector of the postgraduate European Urban Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar and director of the EuroConferences Series «The European City in Transition» at Weimar 2001-2003.

• Contents: Frank Eckardt: Consumption and the Post-Industrial City (Introduction) – Dieter Hassenpflug: City and Consumption – Derek Wynne/Justin O’Connor: Consumption and the Postmodern City – Sako Musterd: Four pictures of the Post-Industrial City – François Ascher: The Third Urban Revolution of Modernity – John Clammer: Culture and Consumption in the Post-Industrial City – Louise Nyström: Quality of Urban Life in Europe in the 21st Century – Anna Karwiñska: Social and Spatial Transformations in Polish Cities at the Beginning of the 21st Century – Iskara Dandolova: Deurbanisation in Bulgaria: Challenges of Transition and Sustainable Development – Maria Manuela Mendes: Cities «Archipelago» in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon – Steven Miles: Consuming Cities; Consuming Youth: Young People’s Lifestyles and the Appropriation of Cultural Space – Pase Mäenpää: Cultural Urbanisation of Helsinki: consumption, mobile phones and new ideal of planning – Martina Boese: Manchester’s Cultural Industries: A Vehicle of Racial Ex-/Inclusion? – Isabelle Fremeaux/David Garbin: «Community», Multi-culturalism and the Diasporic Negociation of Space and Identity in the East End of London – José Mapril: Transnational Jade Formations of the Translocal Practices of Chinese Immigrants in a Lisbon Innercity Neighbourhood – Svetlana Tchervonnaia: The Moscow of the 21st Century - Ethnic and Confessional Colour of a Post-industrial City – Albrecht Göschel: Local Community Identity Policy - Market Strategy, Cultural Education or the Home of the Citizens? – Malcolm Miles: Consuming Culture: Affluence and Social Space in the New Barcelona – Carlos J. L. Balsas: The Return to Downtown - Initial Reflections on the European Capital of Culture, Porto 2001 – Volker Kirchberg: Manifest and Latent Functions of Museums in the Post-Industrial City: A Taxonomy – Lucyna Nyka: Recycling Gdańsk’s Urban Spaces: the Processes Supporting the Identity of the City – Mija Bajic Brkovic: E-Communication and E-Services in Urban Management: Current Trends and Development Perspectives in Yugoslav Cities.