1st Edition

Debating the Neoliberal City

Edited By Gilles Pinson, Christelle Morel Journel Copyright 2017
224 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

230 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The concept of the neoliberal city has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies. It explains both the ongoing transformation of urban policies and the socio-spatial effects of these policies within cities and highlights the prominent role of cities in the new geography of capitalism. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this book challenges the... Read more

Introduction: debating the neoliberal city thesis

Gilles Pinson and Christelle Morel Journel

1. Varieties of capitalism: what can learn from the study of urban firms?

Dominique Lorrain

2. Making up the neoliberal city: the role of urban market actors

Charlotte Halpern and Julie Pollard

3. Regulatory capitalism, the changing nature of urban planning, and the limits of neo-liberalism: lessons from London’s South Bank

Mike Raco, Emma Street, and Sonia Freire Trigo

4. The pre-histories of neoliberal urbanism in the United States

Manuel B. Aalbers

5. Greening the neoliberal city? Urban sustainability and selective neo-liberalization in Manchester and Nantes

Vincent Béal

6. Neoliberalism and the European city: reshaping the competitiveness/social cohesion nexus

Costanzo Ranci

7. State entrepreneurialism in urban China: a critique of the neoliberal city

Fulong Wu

8. State-led real estate boosterism and the breakdown of the Spanish urban model

Marisol Garcia

9. Neo-liberalization is not enough: French urban development corporations and the limits of neo-liberalization theories

Gilles Pinson and Christelle Morel Journel

Biography

Gilles Pinson is Professor of Political Science at the Sciences Po Bordeaux, Centre Emile Durkheim, France.

Christelle Morel Journel is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, France.