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Transforming Cities: Contested Governance and New Spatial Divisions book cover

1st Edition

Transforming Cities Contested Governance and New Spatial Divisions

Edited By Nick Jewson, Susanne Macgregor Copyright 1997
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge
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Transforming Cities examines the profound changes that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the twentieth century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and co-operation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. This book focuses on the impact of economic restructuring and... Read more

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Transforming Cities: Social Exclusion and the Reinvention of Partnership, Nick Jewson and Susanne MacGregor

Part I: Framing the City

1. Transforming Cities: Social Process and Spatial Form, David Harvey

2. The Entrepreneurial City: Re-Imagining Localities, Redesigning Economic Governance, or Restructuring Capital?, Bob Jessop

3. Post-Fordism and Criminality, John Lea

4. Cool Times for a Changing City, Rosemary Mellor

Part II: Managing and Measuring City Life

5. Beyond ‘Culture City’: Glasgow as a ‘Dual City’, Gerry Mooney and Mike Danson

6. ‘Race’, Housing and the City, Peter Ratcliffe

7. Violence, Space and Gender: The Social and Spatial Parameters of Violence Against Women and Men, Jayne Mooney

8. Challenging Perceptions: ‘Community’ and Neighbourliness on a Difficult-To-Let Estate, Janet Foster

Part III: New Forms of Regulation: Partnership and Empowerment

9. Hegemony and Regime in Urban Governance: Towards a Theory of the Locally Networked State, Chris Collinge and Stephen Hall

10. Urban Partnerships, Economic Regeneration an the ‘Healthy City’, Mike Sheaff

11. Policing Late Modernity: Changing Strategies of Crime Management in Contemporary Britain, Gordon Hughes

12. Poverty and Partnership in the Third European Poverty Programme: The Liverpool Case, Robert Moore

Part IV: The Politics of Exclusion and Resistance

13. Downtown Redevelopment and Community Resistance: An International Perspective, Mike Beazley, Patrick Loftman and Brendan Nevin

14. Religion, Education and City Politics: A Case Study of Community Mobilisation, Wendy Ball and James A. Beckford

15. Poverty, Excluded Communities and Local Democracy, Mike Geddes

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Nick Jewson, Susanne Macgregor

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