%0 Journal Article
%T Building (the capital of) Europe as a heterotopy
%A Eric Corijn
%J Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals
%D 2011
%I CIDOB
%X The European unification project requires imagination to achieve the support of the population. Its role should be that of a capital city, not only the location for its institutions, but also as the place for developing arts, culture and innovation related to the project. To become such a capital of Europe would be a good urban project for Brussels. But to achieve that, a critical assessment is needed of the effects of the unification process with very strong centre-periphery dialectics. In that process the Mediterranean way of life is fading away, though it represents a vital part of ˇ°Europeannessˇ±. Constructing a postnational European imaginary and investing that in the project of a capital city needs a decentered identity in a heterotopian space.
%K Europe
%K Brussels
%K urbanity
%K urban imaginaries
%U http://www.cidob.org/en/publicaciones/articulos/revista_cidob_d_afers_internacionals/construyendo_la_capital_de_europa_como_una_heterotopia2