New Europe

Donald McNeill is Associate Professor at the Urban Research Centre, University of Western Sydney. He is the author of Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona (Routledge, 1999).

This book tackles exactly the issues we explore!Dr M Kneafsey, Coventry University, UKAn excellent 'alternative' to the traditional accounts of the european project...witty and entertaining with an appropriate account of further sources and reading. McNeill educates with humour.Dr R RogersonUniversity of StrathclydeAn excellent and contemporary intercultural study - accessible to non specialists and imaginative in approach.Dr Morgan, Anglia Polytechnic University

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1 The Europeanisation of EuropeEurope as a political project The invention of Europe Holiday driving Brussels as capital of Europe Europe and its others: America, Islam, and enlargement Conclusion 2 Europe and the nationRepresenting the nation The national routine Global media flows and national identities Euro Disney Rebranding the nation Urban landscapes and national identity Europeanising the nation Conclusion 3 Regional renaissanceA Europe of the Regions? Why the resurgence of regional identities? Global or local? Regionalism as a political project The Bilbao Guggenheim Conclusion 4 A Europe of the Cities?The European city: 4 approaches The City and the street Transnationalism and the European city Mayors and city politics The Vatican and Global Catholicism Disembedding cities: football and television Conclusion 5 Travelling EuropeansDiscursive mobilities Corporeal travel Tourists Geographies of speed and movement Conclusions 6 Borderlands and barriersSchengenland and Europe’s external borders Concepts of the border The Berlin Wall Cross-border regions The Channel Tunnel Bridges Conclusions 7 MetroworldEurope’s metroworld Maspero’s ‘Roissy Express’ Roadscapes Consumer landscapes Airports Conclusions BIBLIOGRAPHY