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In January 1999, the Berlin government, in partnership with Deutsche Telekom, unveiled three new Mediapolis projects. These were presented as part of Die Wende (“the transition”) from an industrial-based economy to an information society. The emphasis was on “innovation”, “new media” and creating “knowledge networks” (Der Tagesspiegel 1999d). The high-tech, knowledge-rich sectors were the future for Berlin. This was the modish language of the time, the vocabulary of the global city policy discourse.
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Beveridge, R. (2012). The global city policy discourse and water policy-making: making the privatisation of BWB ‘inevitable’. In: A Politics of Inevitability. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-94056-4_5
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