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If we think of "transit areas" as airport lounges, train-station waiting rooms and subways--spaces always in temporary use, and inherently associated with flexibility and mobility--"Transit Areas" suggests that more and more cities now match that description. These case studies cover urban transformations in Eastern Europe since the fall of the Iron Curtain.

The new urban elite live a lifestyle that benefits from and heavily depends on the service economy, a development with potential consequences for architecture and urban planning. "Serve City" explores this latest challenge to the city via an Australian study: the development of an urban-planning strategy for a new service site in Sydney where information and communication technologies play decisive roles in the plan.

In this era of economic globalization, multimedia communication and cross-border migration, cities increasingly consist of parallel worlds. Different urban cultures and practices immediately confront each other. Call centers, informal markets, sprawling communities, new diaspora and transitory lifestyles represent trans-national spaces in urban centers whose cultural, economic and social activities are no longer confined to their localities. How do planning and architecture react when their central point of reference loses its clear nature and thus its identity? Using concrete examples, this...