This first Handbook in a series of three original reference works looks at globally contentious urban policy issues from a wide variety of different angles and perspectives. Matters related to urban densification, population mobility, urban inequality and sustainability are analysed in a manner...

Introduction : diversity and adaptation in the enlarged European Union / Jan Zielonka and Peter Mair -- Eastern enlargement of the European Union and the identity of Europe / Dieter Fuchs and Hans-Dieter Klingemann -- Culture and national identity : 'the East' and European integration / David D....