Urban Planning and Cultural Inclusion: Lessons from Belfast by William V. J. Neill, Hanns-Uve Schwedler

By William V. J. Neill, Hanns-Uve Schwedler

Towns divided via ethnic and cultural clash search to create and retain a conceivable feel of shared id in the event that they are to outlive. city making plans and administration shield range whereas keeping off turning into a disconnected conglomeration. Belfast and Berlin are at the moment within the means of responding to this problem: what's going to the consequences be for city planners and the way do they technique their job?

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But in addition to this, already existing conflicts flared up again over Planwerk Innenstadt between advocates of ‘Critical Reconstruction’ and critical planners and architects – especially in East Berlin. 28 The Planwerk Innenstadt – as it was presented in its draft form to the public for the first time in 1996 – offered for the first time since the City’s reunification: … a comprehensive concept for redeveloping both the historical inner city and the so-called ‘City West’ downtown. A primary objective was to encourage the development of the entire Berlin inner city in ways that would be attractive in urban design terms as well as being economically, ecologically, and socially sustainable … a stated goal of the Planwerk Innenstadt is to illustrate and encourage a city for the twenty-first century … guiding concepts are in such areas as mobility, density, sustainability, urbanity and identity.

This introduction to identity conflict in Belfast and Northern Ireland, through the examination of this particular urban planning issue, sets the context for an overview of the Belfast contributions to this volume. An official government publication introduces Stormont thus: The Northern Ireland Parliament Building stands on an elevated site at Stormont, about 5 miles from the centre of Belfast. The main approach to the building is by a broad processional avenue threequarters of a mile long and rising some 180 feet, planted on either side with a double row of lime trees, and running through welltended grounds of 300 acres.

Ganser, J. Hesse and C. Zöpel (eds), Die Zukunft der Städte (Baden-Baden: Verlagsgesellschaft, 1991) pp. 54–65. 17 At the end of 1999 both of these government departments were combined to form a ‘Super Ministry’ that is under the direction of a Social Democrat. It remains to be seen if the politically motivated conflicts concerning planning models will decrease or increase, as other urban planning interests may not continue to be adequately considered. 18 B. Schulz, ‘Bau, schau, wem. Das neue Berlin: Die Stadt inszeniert sich selbst – und zieht Bilanz eines Jahrzehnts der architektonischen und urbanistischen Umgestaltung’, Der Tagesspiegel (5 June 1999).

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