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...
Beveridge, Ross
2011-10-04 00:00:00
[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.]
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A Politics of InevitabilityThe global city policy discourse and water policy-making: making the privatisation of BWB ‘inevitable’
[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.]
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