Chapter 1 Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning, Heiko Schmid, Wolf-Dietrich Sahr, John Urry; Part I Revealing Fascination: Theoretical Horizons; Chapter 2 The Urban Question after Modernity, Michael Dear; Chapter 3 The City is Back (in Our Minds), Jacques Lévy; Chapter 4 Emotions in an Urban Environment: Embellishing the Cities from the Perspective of the Humanities, Jürgen Hasse; Chapter 5 Aesthetics and Design: Perceptions in the Postmodern Periphery, Ludger Basten; Part II Focusing Fascination: Crossing Theoretical and Empirical Perpectives; Chapter 6 'The Most Dangerous Knack': Fetish and Fascination in the Built Environment, Neil Smith; Chapter 7 The Urban Staging of Politics: Life Worlds, Aesthetics, and Planning '" and an Example from Brazil, Wolf-Dietrich Sahr; Part III Implementing Fascination: Case Studies; Chapter 8 From Dreamland to Wasteland: The Discursive Structuring of Cities, Ulrike Gerhard, Ingo H. Warnke; Chapter 9 Re-designing the Metropolis: Purpose and Perception of the Ruhr District as European Capital of Culture 2010, Achim Prossek; Chapter 10 Strategic Staging of Urbanity: Urban Images in Films and Film Images in Hamburg's City Marketing, Sybille Bauriedl, Anke Strüver; Chapter 11 'Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics': Consumer Pedagogy in Macao, Tim Simpson; Part IV Consequences of Fascination: New Horizons; Chapter 12 Excess, Fascination and Climates, John Urry;
