TY - JOUR AU - Mayer, Margit PY - 1997/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Berlin - Los Angeles: Berlin auf dem Weg zur »Global City«? JF - PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft JA - PROKLA VL - 27 IS - 109 SE - Artikel des Heftschwerpunkts DO - 10.32387/prokla.v27i109.862 UR - https://www.prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/862 SP - 519-543 AB - <p>This article explores the possible future ofunified Berlin against the backdrop of other advanced metropoles, particularly Los Angeles, using some of the findings of global city research as weil as that of L.A. school to shed light on the incipient developments of greater Berlin: industrial restructuring, growing intemationalization, de- and reconstruction of spatial configurations, and the intensifying economic and social polarization as trends which Berlin shares with other metropoles adjusting to globalization pressures, even though it does not play in the league of global cities.</p> ER -