A roundtable discussion. Moderator: Dario Gaggio, CES-EUC director and associate professor of history, U-M. Presenters: Henco Bekkering, professor and chair of Urban Compositions, TU Delft, and Netherlands Visiting Professor of Urban Planning, U-M; Scott Campbell, associate professor of urban planning, U-M; Lydia Soo, associate professor of architecture, U-M. In the past the European city has influenced much of the development of the  American city--what can the American point of view provide for rethinking   the future of the European city? This discussion will be based on the  reciprocal viewpoints of the participants: a European urban designer from  Rotterdam who is currently studying Detroit, and two Americans, an urban  planner who studies Berlin and an architectural historian who examines  Florence. The panelists use these three cities as prototypes of larger challenges in American and European urban life:  reconciling historic  preservation with contemporary global redevelopment pressures, the transformation of former industrial cities, the emergence of mega- projects as an economic growth strategy, and the challenge of shrinking cities.