Authors in this volume Franco BIANCHINI: Introduction. European Urban Mindscapes: Concepts, Cultural Representations and Policy Applications Methodology and Concept Formation Rolf LINDNER: The Gestalt of the Urban Imaginary Jude BLOOMFIELD: Researching the Urban Imaginary: Resisting the Erasure of Places Betty NIGIANNI: ‘An Avenue that Looks Like Me’: Re-presenting the Modern Cityscape Giandomenico AMENDOLA: Urban Mindscapes Reflected in Shop Windows Nicolas WHYBROW: Encountering the City: On ‘Not Taking Yourself With You’ Cultural Representation of the City Neal ALEXANDER: Strange City: Belfast Gothic Keith WILLIAMS: ‘Seeing the Future’: Urban Dystopia in Wells and Lang Barry LANGFORD: Strangers (to) Themselves: Cityscapes and Mindscapes in 1980s European Cinema Hugh O'DONNELL: Once in TV’s Royal City: Television Coverage of Royal Media Events Matthew REASON: Cartoons and the Comic Exposure of the European City of Culture Levente POLYÁK: Drifting Bridges: Semantic Changes of the Bridge Metaphor in Twentieth-Century Budapest Stuart PRICE: Reconstructing the Ancient City: Imagining the Athenian Polis Applications of the Concept of Urban Mindscapes Klaus SIEBENHAAR: The Myth of Berlin: the Imagined and the Staged City Godela WEISS-SUSSEX: Berlin Literature and its Use in the Marketing of the ‘New Berlin’ Doris TESKE: Sites and Sights: the Urban Museum in a Changing Urban Structure Lia GHILARDI: Identity by Invocation or by Design? How Planning is Conjuring up a New Identity for Malmö Paul BROOKES, interviewed by Franco BIANCHINI: Confessions of a Place Marketer