Dear all,

Thanks for all the useful comments. Scanning through the list of papers, I it does seem a significant challenge to identify an overarching structure for the very diverse range of contributions. I agree that ‘metaphor’ may be a linking theme for a number of papers + I like Olivia’s suggestions about possible categories.

Suzi’s ‘who decides’, ‘who participates’ and ‘who imagines’ sound very coherent- i can quite see those in print!

Other, perhaps dumber themes to link papers might be: scale, boundary, memory, change, vision. These terms, whilst not perfect, begin to encompass the different ways in which we each spoke about relationships between the physical structure of the city (its impacts, etc), urban dynamics (including process and participation) and human perception/ experience (including imagination, metaphor, etc).

In fact, come to think of it, the set of categories, in these terms, could as well be structures, dynamics and experiences….

In terms of organisation, I thought the suggestion to have a US/ UK editorial panel of 4-6 people sounded like a good idea….