This paper examines the recent interest in Berlin in the English-language urban
studies journals over the past decade. It argues that welcome though this interest
may be, the narrowness of its focus says much about the limitations of current
Anglophone urban and regional studies. Following on from the recent set of
Euro-commentaries in this journal, and using recent writing on Berlin as a
case-study, it suggests Anglophone urban studies has much to gain from: (a) placing
greater value on the plurality of Europe's urban tradition; and (b) paying
greater attention to the plurality of urban narratives that lie outside the existing
analytic consensus within Anglophone urban and regional studies.
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