Promoting Europe through ‘Unity in Diversity’: Avignon as European Capital of Culture in 2000

Ingram, Mark

doi:10.1111/j.1556-5823.2010.00003.x

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“…Consequently, numerous scholars have looked at ECOCs approaches to defining and actually producing “European culture” (e.g. Ingram, 2010; Sassatelli, 2002). With regard to East Central European cities – which are latecomers also in the sense that their countries became EU members only in the 2004 and 2007 enlargements –this process has to be seen in the context of “Europeanness [being] seen as something that manifests better living standards” (Lähdesmäki, 2012a: 12; see also Habit, 2011).…”

Section: The Transnationalisation Of Urban Development Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transnationalisation of development strategies in East Central European cities: A survey of the shortlisted Polish European Capital of Culture candidate cities

Tolle

2013

European Urban and Regional Studies

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The level of integration of a city into transnational networks has become widely interpreted as the decisive factor of urban development in a globalising world. Hence, the building of transnational links has become a vital aspect of city development strategies. This applies in a particular way also to the "latecomer" cities in East Central Europe aspiring to overcome marginality. Here, the analysis of final European Capital of Culture applications allows for definition of the state-of-the-art of such transnationalisation strategies in this part of Europe. As the cases of the five cities shortlisted in the contest to become the Polish European Capital of Culture 2016 show (i.e. Gdańsk, Katowice, Lublin, Warsaw, and the eventual laureate city of Wrocław), transnational networking on the level of innovative regions, metropolitan areas or cross-border regions is rather poorly developed. The cases also show that the lack of transnational urban societies, which is interpreted as a disadvantage in the quest to build and market attractive and creative cities, can be compensated for by the rediscovery of a multiethnic past.

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Section: The Transnationalisation Of Urban Development Policiesmentioning

confidence: 99%