Hi all,

Building on comments from Olivia, Melissa, Tad and Suzi I think that the issue of metaphors lends itself (as a meta-discourse; i.e.: writing about the writing of cities) as an overaching theme provinding information about how cities are envisioned. Chapters 2 to 5 could focus on articles desribing how metaphors of everyday life (ch 2); expert regulation (ch3); regeneration (ch4); human-technology interaction (ch5) allow for different interpretations of how cities are made and would provide, I think interesting contrasts (e.g. cities being made via everday live versus experts versus technology … Chapter 6 could then focus on articles that show how metaphors are used to design the physical structures of cities in terms of designs that are being applied. Appologies to all to whose specifics I can not do justice by making such generalised categorisations. Lets refine it.

1. Metaphors of city-making: Olivia (metaphors of cities in general), Juliet (Catalyst), Cecilia (culture),

Huma (violence), Torsten (Green)

2. City-making written from persepectives of everyday live: Suzi  (multiculturalism); Austin (insecurity); Sadia (Nomadism)

3. City-making written from perspectives of expert regulation: Eli (organization); Dana (coercion); Juergen (negotiation)

4. City-making written from perspectives of regeneration: Erin (mega project regeneration) ; Melissa (urban renewal); Corinna (cultural regeneration)

5.  City-making written from perspectives of human-technology interaction: Frauke (sound); Susanne (lights); Jesse and Brian (Art); Francesca (www); Tad (textmessaging)

6: City-making from perspectives of applied designs: Hiro (Olympics); Jonathan (Chinatowns), Ben (Linear cities)