Railway Station Mega-Projects and the Re-Making of Inner Cities in Europe

Railway station mega-projects have been, or are being, undertaken in almost every large city in Europe, but they have been little studied. This issue addresses that shortcoming by presenting a number of recent cases of large-scale urban redevelopment projects centred around rail stations, embedding these accounts in a wider academic debate over rail stations as strategic sites in the post-industrial restructuring of inner cities. Together, the contributors to this issue demonstrate how inter-modally connected, mixed-use developments at centrally located rail hubs are a crucial element in the challenge to develop more sustainable human settlements.

 

• Rail Station Mega-Projects: Overlooked Centrepieces in the Complex Puzzle of Urban Restructuring in Europe
  Deike Peters and Johannes Novy
• Train Station Area Development Mega-Projects in Europe: Towards a Typology
  Deike Peters and Johannes Novy
• Station Area Projects in Europe and Beyond: Towards Transit Oriented Development?
  Luca Bertolini, Carey Curtis and John Renne
• Impact of High Speed Rail Stations on Local Development: A Delphi Survey
  Anastasia Loukaitou-sideris, Dana Cuff, Timothy Higgins and Orly Linovski
• Rail Mega-Projects in the Realm of Inter- and Intra-City Accessibility: Evidence and Outlooks for Berlin
  Gabriel Ahlfeldt
• Megaproject as Keyhole Surgery: London Crossrail
  Michael Hebbert
• History and Failure of the Mega-Project ‘Frankfurt 21’
  George Speck
• The Five Lives of HB Südwest: Zurich’s Main Station Development from 1969 to 2019
  Richard Wolff
• Railway Station Megaprojects as Public Controversies: The Case of Stutt gart 21
  Johannes Novy and Deike Peters