BERLIN: FROM DIVIDED INTO FRAGMENTED CITY

Epidemic measles in a divided city.

Divided city: the crisis of London

In an article written in 2000 I posed what I called ‘the Multicultural question’. It runs something like this: What are the chances that we can construct in our cities shared, diverse, just, and egalitarian forms of common life, guaranteeing the full rights of democratic citizenship and participation to all on the basis of equality, whilst respecting the differences which inevitably come about ...

Touring Berlin. Virtual Destination, Tourist Communication and the Multiple city

Through the study of standardized practices (walking tours, bus-tours) and devices (maps, guidebooks) for touring cities, this dissertation shows (1) how the city of Berlin is transformed into a virtual object, namely, an urban destination, (2) how such transformation is enabled not simply by tourist movement in space and being away from ‚home‘, but by tourist communication on the city, and (3)...

Integrating Fragmented Objects into a CORBA Environment

The design of distributed applications based on a fragmented object model has many benefits. Unlike traditional middleware with a RPC-based client-server interaction, the implementation of a fragmented object may be distributed over an arbitrary number of fragments, without restrictions on internal structure or interaction, while maintaining a transparent, standardized interface on the outside....

Tantalizing Glimpses into a Fragmented Genome

Oxytricha trifallax is an unusual enough organism on the outside. Neither plant nor animal, covered with tiny hair-like protuberances, this one-celled protozoan cruises ponds and puddles in search of microbial meals. But even more unusual is what’s inside. Like other ciliates, O. trifallax has two nuclei: a micronucleus, which contains its entire genome, and a macronucleus, which houses an edit...