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THE FUTURE SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROFILE OF EUROPEAN CAPITAL CITIES Brussels, 14-16 October 1993

spreading. This Brussels conference brought together scholars from national and regional capitals of all corners of Europe, from Moscow through Athens and Lisbon, to Dublin and Copenhagen. Among EU capitals, only Rome was conspicuously absent. London chose to abstain, while Brussels was overrepresented. In fact, this European capital par excellence was the epicentre of it all, not only as the location of the conference, but also as the city focused upon by about half of the presentations. The EU headquarters have completely restructured the urban tissue. Cranes and scaffolding are always around: building and public works never end in Brussels. The opening speeches stressed these changes in the city and discussed its priorities, as mirrored in recent development plans. Two of the comparative urban projects of the conference originated in Brussels: the Atlas of European cities (drafted by several research teams across Europe, cooridinated by Vandermotten) and a study of contrasts between Brussels and Amsterdam, two cities with a