Section 1

Step 1 -
This section is curated in a first phase  by the working group  formed in Vienna  (Patrice, Marvi, Katerina, Laura, Richard, Angela, Lorenzo, Beatriz, forgetting anyone?), collecting the materials  necessary to elaborate the collective writing. It will be progressively enlarged to who is interested in editing the text. This section will gather:


 * a narrative about the origins  of the NMM project within the INURA and a brief story of INURA itself, starting  from a Timeline ,reconstructing the main steps of both the network and the common research project.
 * Main (critical)  theoretical / political issues which accompanied the different moments of both  INURA  and the NMM.
 * the discussion regarding the  New Metropolitan Mainstream concept and theorical approach
 * The discussion and the elaboration process of the categories adopted for the mapping project
 * NMM introduction,  drafting the actual Chapter 1 of the book drawing on the above quoted collection of materials.

The main content of the chapter has the backbone in the theory explaining the project. We understand the   NMM as part of an history of urban processes happening in cities over the last 20 years, and that we debated, discussed and analysed within INURA. Therefore the introduction is the story of   20 years of urban changes that we look now under the lenses of NMM project. This narrative entails the theoretical debate in which we situate   INURA shared criticism towards neoliberal ideologies of urban development. Being aware of the fact that INURA has many voices related to different theoretical thoughts and backgrounds, we are opting for a collage of theories, without pretending to achieve a sound coherence. For this reason, we thought that already written documents about INURA and NMM (Christian's background paper, Roger's criticism of NMM, Text of the COST action et al) should be regarded as basic materials for describing NMM.

Step 2
- In March 2013 in Florence a further step has been made, precising contents that will be part of the introduction, therefore identifying the main issues which constitute the background of the NMM project and the people which will facilitate the writing / editing or the related texts. The proposal is to prepare a short draft for each one of these text to de discussed in next Inura meeting in Lisbon.