Euro-commentary: (Anglo)phoning Home from Berlin: A Response to Alan Latham
回应艾伦·莱瑟姆对柏林城市发展的批评，指出柏林通过‘正常化’过程被重新定位，不能简单归为全球新自由主义模板，但也需警惕将其视为免疫于新自由主义压力的替代模式。
Alan Latham criticizes recent Anglophone writing on Berlin for reflecting a consensus position, which explains urban development with the help of a template defined by globalizing neo-liberalism. In some respects the points he makes are helpful. Berlin has been actively repositioned and re-imagined through an ambivalent process of ‘normalization’, which cannot be reduced to the rolling out of some global norm. However, there is a danger in this approach that Berlin is presented as somehow immune from the pressures of neo-liberalism and as providing the template of an alternative (European social-democratic) model.