Contents

John Gøtze's PhD-thesis

Acknowledgements

Utopia!

The Democratic Perspective in the Urban Context

• Which crisis?
• The democratic context
• The notion of participation
• Liberalism
• Transparency
• Democracy that makes a difference

• Introduction. Technology and Democracy in the wired society
• The new public sphere - Internet
• Government on-line?
• The Road Ahead
• European policy
• National strategies - Denmark
• Cities of Bits
• Community networks - another road ahead?
• Virtual and wired
• Democracy and Technology

• Information and participation
• The methodology of GDPSS
• Group problem solving process
• Conflicts in the group problem solving process
• Regional planning and limitation of GDPSS
• Context: Information System for Regional Planning

• The context: Amager
• Public Authorities
• Local institutions and networks
• http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/amar - Wired Amager
• Ørestad

• Tokyo Teleport Town
• Minato Mirai 21
• Makuhari New City Centre
• Large-scale Urban Projects
• Another Trend: Machi-zukuri
• Setagaya Community Design Centre
• Tsukuba and Tsuchiura
• Tama Area - Minamiosawa
• Exit Tokyo

• Introduction
• Theoretical foundation - hinterland
• Dialogues
• Researcher - researcher dialogues
• Dialogues with elites and people
• Cutting the cake differently
• Japanese inspiration
• The Amager Context - getting closer

• A more democratic Ørestad?
• The gap between reality and vision