ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways in which Local Agenda 21 (LA21) reshapes the urban technical networks and the flow management. Using an empirical study of several LA21 groups in the Berlin region it has demonstrated that LA21 can take many different forms, thus substantiating similar observations emerging in the recent literature. The principal areas of diversity lie in the social organization of LA21 groups, the problems and solutions they define and their modes of action. In an attempt to make greater sense out of the wide range of standpoints, a typology of LA21 initiatives in Berlin is developed. The Round Table was formed, among other reasons, to discuss sustainable development in a regional rather than just an urban context, covering intra-regional dependencies in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg. Pressing social problems are the focus of several inner-city LA21 initiatives, as in the boroughs of Wedding, Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain, shaping a very different approach to LA21.
