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A Politics of InevitabilityThe global city policy discourse and water policy-making: making the privatisation of BWB ‘inevitable’

A Politics of Inevitability: The global city policy discourse and water policy-making: making the... [In January 1999, the Berlin government, in partnership with Deutsche Telekom, unveiled three new Mediapolis projects. These were presented as part of Die Wende (“the transition”) from an industrial-based economy to an information society. The emphasis was on “innovation”, “new media” and creating “knowledge networks” (Der Tagesspiegel 1999d). The high-tech, knowledge-rich sectors were the future for Berlin. This was the modish language of the time, the vocabulary of the global city policy discourse.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Politics of InevitabilityThe global city policy discourse and water policy-making: making the privatisation of BWB ‘inevitable’

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VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
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© VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2012
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978-3-531-18219-3
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107 –145
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10.1007/978-3-531-94056-4_5
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[In January 1999, the Berlin government, in partnership with Deutsche Telekom, unveiled three new Mediapolis projects. These were presented as part of Die Wende (“the transition”) from an industrial-based economy to an information society. The emphasis was on “innovation”, “new media” and creating “knowledge networks” (Der Tagesspiegel 1999d). The high-tech, knowledge-rich sectors were the future for Berlin. This was the modish language of the time, the vocabulary of the global city policy discourse.]

Published: Oct 4, 2011

Keywords: Civil Servant; Partial Privatisation; Global City; Urban Governance; Fiscal Crisis

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