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Bristol University Press How to Save Our Town Centres
Book SynopsisWritten in an engaging and accessible style, How to save our town centres asks whether the internet has killed our high streets and how the relationship between people and places is changing, how business is done and who benefits, and how the use and ownership of land affects us all.Trade Review“It’s brilliant. I recommend it hugely. Buy copies for everyone on your local council.” Rob Hopkins, co-founder of Transition Network"From Brixton to Brazil, Julian Dobson provides a positive plethora of examples from the retail world to help illustrate what works (and what doesn't) when it comes to saving town centres." European Journal of Current Legal Issues“This is a fascinating and important book - a primer for the reinvigoration of local economies and high streets. At last a refreshing alternative to the official narrative of the decline of the high street.” Anna Minton, writer, journalist and Visiting Professor at the University of East London, UK"The book is an impassioned plea for a new approach to high streets, based on a lifetime of research, consultancy and observations of what makes high streets tick." People, Place and Policy“A significant and important book that is entertainingly and engagingly written. Julian Dobson critiques, dissects and then rebuilds the state of our high streets and town centres, arguing coherently for new, locally based, ground-up reconstruction of place and community and challenges us all to get involved.” Professor Leigh Sparks, Professor of Retail Studies at the University of Stirling, UK"The debate about high streets has become completely stuck. By setting it in a wider context about the places we might want to live in the future, Julian Dobson has relaunched it in a really exciting way." David Boyle, author, and fellow of the New Economics FoundationTable of ContentsPart One: Today It took a riot; Thanks for the memories; To market, to market; Lost in the supermarket; Declaring independence; Part Two: Tomorrow Raise a glass to the new economy; The unexpected buzz in the library; The space in between; A place to live; Reclaiming the land; If we had a little money; From ‘me’ towns to ‘we’ towns.
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CSIRO Publishing Australias Metropolitan Imperative
Book SynopsisMakes the case that metropolitan governments would promote the economic competitiveness of Australia's cities and enable more effective and democratic planning and management. The contributors explore the global metropolitan “renaissance”, document the history of metropolitan debate in Australia and demonstrate metropolitan governance failures.
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Random House USA Inc Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure
Book Synopsis“A comprehensive, entertaining, and compelling argument for how rebuilding social infrastructure can help heal divisions in our society and move us forward.”—Jon StewartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “Engaging.”—Mayor Pete Buttigieg, The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice)We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country hasn’t seen since the Civil War. Pundits and politicians are calling for us to come together and find common purpose. But how, exactly, can this be done?In Palaces for the People, Eric Klinenberg suggests a way forward. He believes that the future of democratic societies rests not simply on shared values but on shared spaces: the libraries, childcare centers, churches, and parks where crucial connections are formed. Interweaving his own research with examples from around the globe, Klinenberg shows how “social infrastructure” is helping to solve some of our most pressing societal challenges. Richly reported and ultimately uplifting, Palaces for the People offers a blueprint for bridging our seemingly unbridgeable divides.LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION“Just brilliant!”—Roman Mars, 99% Invisible“The aim of this sweeping work is to popularize the notion of ‘social infrastructure''—the ‘physical places and organizations that shape the way people interact''. . . . Here, drawing on research in urban planning, behavioral economics, and environmental psychology, as well as on his own fieldwork from around the world, [Eric Klinenberg] posits that a community’s resilience correlates strongly with the robustness of its social infrastructure. The numerous case studies add up to a plea for more investment in the spaces and institutions (parks, libraries, childcare centers) that foster mutual support in civic life.”—The New Yorker“Palaces for the People—the title is taken from the Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie’s description of the hundreds of libraries he funded—is essentially a calm, lucid exposition of a centuries-old idea, which is really a furious call to action.”—New Statesman“Clear-eyed . . . fascinating.”—Psychology Today
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University of Tennessee Press Interstate: Highway Politics and Policy Since 1939
Book SynopsisThis new, expanded edition brings the story of the Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and communities as the urban expressways of the highway network destroyed large portions of the nation’s central cities. Mohl and Rose analyse the subsequent urban freeway revolts, when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation decision making to the state and regional level. They analyse the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s, especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement, an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging, and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar lines, and promote urban revitalisation efforts. This revised edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid research by two well-known scholars. This new, expanded edition brings the story of the Interstates into the twenty-first century. It includes an account of the destruction of homes, businesses, and communities as the urban expressways of the highway network destroyed large portions of the nation’s central cities. Mohl and Rose analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts, when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and other cities. Their detailed research in the archival records of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Federal Highway Administration, and the U.S. Department of Transportation brings to light significant evidence of federal action to tame the spreading freeway revolts, curb the authority of state highway engineers, and promote the devolution of transportation decision making to the state and regional level. They analyze the passage of congressional legislation in the 1990s, especially the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA), that initiated a major shift of Highway Trust Fund dollars to mass transit and light rail, as well as to hiking trails and bike lanes. Mohl and Rose conclude with the surprising popularity of the recent freeway teardown movement, an effort to replace deteriorating, environmentally damaging, and sometimes dangerous elevated expressway segments through the inner cities. Sometimes led by former anti-highway activists of the 1960s and 1970s, teardown movements aim to restore the urban street grid, provide space for new streetcar lines, and promote urban revitalization efforts. This revised edition continues to be marked by accessible writing and solid research by two well-known scholars. Raymond A. Mohl is distinguished professor of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of South of the South: Jewish Activists and the Civil Rights Movement in Miami, 1945-1960 and co-editor of The Making of Urban America, 3rd edition. Mark H. Rose is professor of history at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America and coauthor of The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century.
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Loving Healing Press Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned
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Clanrye International Contemporary Urban Planning
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Clanrye International Sustainable Cities: A Guide to Urban Planning
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IGI Global Inclusive Community Development Through Tourism and Hospitality Practices
Book SynopsisSustainable tourism should not be limited to environmental preservation; the sociocultural and economic sides should also be considered. There is a need for an integrated approach recognizing the resources, facilities, and infrastructures that are interrelated with the social, cultural, and natural environment. Community development becomes a reality only by merging the principles of sustainability with growth objectives. Even though investments in environmentally friendly infrastructure and related services are fundamental, there is a need to address gender inequalities, exploitation, and commercialization of culture. Further, there is a need to prioritize the link between tourism and poverty reduction. Inclusive Community Development Through Tourism and Hospitality Practices explores various viable strategies for the adoption of sustainable approaches that can eventually boost economic growth and poverty reduction all over the world. Covering topics such as international tourism, sustainable development, and tourism reinforcement, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for business leaders and managers, students and educators of higher education, community leaders, government officials, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press Governing Cities Through Regions: Canadian and European Perspectives
Book SynopsisThe region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja's terms, "an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it." Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project that engages with Anglo-American, French, and German literatures on the subject of regional governance. It expands the comparative angle from issues of economic competiveness and social cohesion to topical and relevant fields such as housing and transportation, and it expands comparative work on municipal governance to the regional scale. With contributions from established and emerging international scholars of urban and regional governance, the volume covers conceptual topics and case studies that contrast the experience of a range of Canadian metropolitan regions with a strong selection of European regions. It starts from assumptions of limited conversion among regions across the Atlantic but is keenly aware of the remarkable differences in urban regions' path dependencies in which the larger processes of globalization and neo-liberalization are situated and materialized.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Section A: Conceptual, Comparative, and General Considerations 1 Regional Governance Revisited: Political Space, Collective Agency, and Identity / Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Stefan Kipfer, and Ahmed Allahwala 2 Social Agency and Collective Action in the Structurally Transformed Metropolis: Past and Future Research Agendas / Julie-Anne Boudreau and Pierre Hamel 3 Movements and Politics in the Metropolitan Region / Margit Mayer 4 Governing the Built Environment in European Metropolitan Regions: Financialization, Responsibilization, and Urban Competition / Susanne Heeg 5 The Global City-Region: A Constantly Emerging Scalar Fix / Bernd Belina and Ute Lehrer Section B: Canadian Regions 6 Internalized Globalization and Regional Governance in the Toronto Region / Roger Keil and Jean-Paul D. Addie 7 Governing the Networked Metropolis: The Regionalization of Urban Transportation in Southern Ontario / Jean-Paul D. Addie 8 âBuild Torontoâ (Not Social Housing): Neglecting the Social Housing Question in a Competitive City-Region / Teresa Abbruzzese 9 Shortcomings and Promises of Governing City-Regions in the Canadian Federal Context: The Example of Montreal / Pierre Hamel 10 Winnipeg: Aspirational Planning, Chaotic Development / Christopher Leo 11 Sustainability Fix Meets Growth Machine: Attempting to Govern the Calgary Metropolitan Region / Byron Miller 12 Provincial Distrust Weighs on Vancouverâs Regional Governance / Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly and Ãve Arcand Section C: European Regions 13 The Global City Comes Home: Internalized Globalization in Frankfurt Rhine-Main / Roger Keil and Christoph Siegl 14 Grand Paris: The Bumpy Road toward Metropolitan Governance / Stefan Kipfer, Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, and Antoine Noubouwo 15 Genealogies of Urban-Regional Governance: Journeys in a Post-Socialist City-Region / Mark Whitehead 16 Building Narratives of City-Regions: The Case of Barcelona / Mariona TomÃs 17 The Resistible Rise of Italyâs Metropolitan Regions: The Politics of Sub-National Government Reform in Postwar Italy / Simon Parker 18 The Uncertain Development of Metropolitan Governance: Comparing Englandâs First and Second City-Regions / Ian Gordon, Michael Harloe, and Alan Harding 19 Conclusion: North Atlantic Urban and Regional Governance / Julie-Anne Boudreau, Pierre Hamel, Roger Keil and Stefan Kipfer Notes on Contributors Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Remaking London: Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture
Book SynopsisBetween the slum clearances of the early twentieth century and debates about the post-Olympic city, the drive to 'regenerate' London has intensified. Yet today, with a focus on increasing land values, regeneration schemes purporting to foster diverse and creative new neighbourhoods typically displace precisely the qualities, activities and communities they claim to support. In Remaking London Ben Campkin provides a lucid and stimulating historical account of urban regeneration, exploring how decline and renewal have been imagined and realised at different scales. Focussing on present-day regeneration areas that have been key to the capital's modern identity, Campkin explores how these places have been stigmatised through identification with material degradation, and spatial and social disorder. Drawing on diverse sources - including journalism, photography, cinema, theatre, architectural design, advertising and television - he illuminates how ideas of decline drive urban change. Richly illustrated and engagingly written, Remaking London is both a compelling account of contested sites from the capital's recent history and a powerful critique of the contradictions of contemporary regeneration.Trade Review'An important and much needed corrective, full of fascinating insights, which exposes the myths of regeneration' - Anna Minton, author of Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-First-Century City 'Thoughtful and timely - an invaluable text'-Building Design 'a skillful historical account of the intertwined aesthetic, moral, social, and political projects that have been pursued in the name of regeneration - a crucial intervention into contemporary debates about urbanism' -LSE Review of Books 'Beautifully written, Remaking London provides a powerful critique of the contradictions of contemporary schemes, refreshingly 'un-academic' in tone, yet carefully researched'-Urban Times 'a beautifully crafted book and a jolly good read'-The GeographicalTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction 1 1. Slum Spectacle 19 2. Life in the Ruins 37 3. Regeneration ad nauseam 57 4. Sink Estate Spectacle 77 5. Crisis and Creativity 105 6. Ornament from Grime 127 7. Burial and Bioremediation 149 Conclusion 163 Notes 169 Bibliography 215 Index 237
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A History of Water: Series III, Volume 1: Water and Urbanization
Book SynopsisWith empirical and ethnographic case studies from around the world the three volumes together represent one of the most complete and up to date accounts of the central role of water in the history and development of humanity.Table of ContentsContents Introduction: Urbanization and water systems Terje Tvedt and Terje Oestigaard Part 1 The first cities, their localization and structure 1. Ancient Jericho/Tell es-Sultan. the tale of an early city and water control in ancient Palestine Lorenzo Nigro 2. Mohenjo-daro, Indus Valley Civilization: water supply and water use in the third millennium BC Michael Jansen 3. Xian: water management and the development of the city planning in history Xiaochang C. Wang and Rong Chen 4. Phoenician cities and water: the role of sacred sources in the urban development of Motya, Western Sicily Federica Spagnoli 5. Waters at Babylon Olof Pedersén 6. Water control in ancient Greek cities Demetris Koutsoyiannis and Anna Patrikiou 7. Plumbing Ancient Rome Katherine Rinne Part 2: Water systems and urban development through history 8. Aksum: water and urbanization in northern Ethiopia Federica Sulas 9. Machu Picchu: water engineering in the mountains Kenneth R. Wright 10. The water supply of Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople James Crow 11. Timbuktu: origin of urbanism by the “Mother’s well” Douglas Park 12. Water management in a maritime culture: the Swahili coast of East Africa Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Jeffrey Fleisher 13. Holy wells, hot springs and royal baths: water and socio-cultural developments in medieval and post-medieval Ethiopia Niall Finneran 14. An urban structure along the sacred waters of the Ganges in Varanasi Savitri Jalais 15. Damascus: the Death of the Garden of Eden Francesca de Châtel 16. An environmental history of the Viennese sanitation system – from Roman to modern times Michael Neundlinger, Sylvia Gierlinger, Gudrun Pollack & Fridolin Krausmann Part 3: The growth of the modern city 17. New York: water management and metropolitan development Betsy McCully 18. Paris: a history of water, sewers and urban development Sabine Barles & André Guillerme 19. Creating the urban hydraulic machine: water, technology, and the building of Boston Michael J. Rawson 20. Manchester: canals and the development of the city during the industrial revolution Peter Maw 21. Houston’s public sinks: water and wastewater services in the ‘energy capital’ of the world Martin V. Melosi 22. Bergen: water and sewage in the rainy city Morten Hammerborg and Martin Byrkjeland 23. History of water and sanitation services in the urban-rural context – the city of Tampere, Finland Tapio S. Katko and Petri S. Juuti 24. Los Angeles: the city’s water systems from its origins to today Irene J. Klaver 25. Dar es Salam: the development of water supply and sewage systems Marianne Kjellén and Alphonce Kyessi 26. Rotterdam dynamic polder and harbour city Fransje L. Hooimeijer & Han Meyer 27. Regulating discretion: privatization of Manilla’s water supply Leong Ching and Xun Wu Part 4: Urbanism and the water illusion 28. Mexico City: a tale of water development, its values and challenges 29. The Singapore water story re-examined Eduardo Araral and Leong Ching 30. Las Vegas: a city gambling with water Leah J. Wilds Index
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WIT Press The Sustainable City XVII
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Institution of Engineering and Technology Smart Cities for Inclusive Innovation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New Global Frontier: Urbanization, Poverty
Book SynopsisThe worlds developing countries will be experiencing massive increases in their urban populations over the 21st century. If managed intelligently and humanely, this growth can pave the way to sustainable development; otherwise, it will favour higher levels of poverty and environmental stress. The outcome depends on decisions being made now. The principal theme that runs through this volume is the need to transform urbanization into a positive force for development. Part I of this book reviews the demography of the urban transition, stressing the importance of benefi cial rural-urban connections and challenging commonly held misconceptions. Part II asks how urban housing, land and service provision can be improved in the face of rapid urban expansion, drawing lessons from experiences around the world. Part III analyses the challenges and opportunities that urbanization presents for improving living environments and reducing pressures on local and global ecosystems. These social and environmental challenges must be met in the context of fast-changing demographic circumstances; Part IV explores the range of opportunities that these transformations represent. These challenges and opportunities vary greatly across Africa, Asia and Latin America, as detailed in Part V. Published with IIED and UNFPATrade Review'This remarkable book convincingly challenges urban misconceptions about such issues as growth, poverty and the environment, and uses compelling evidence-based arguments to demonstrate why urbanization is the most important 21st century priority. Its ambitious, comprehensive scope ... ensures that it will become an indispensable classic for policymakers, practitioners and academics.' Caroline Moser, Director, Global Urban Research Centre, Manchester University 'Too many policymakers fear our urban future, seeing only slums and strife. With the help of this excellent and timely volume, they should look again, and they may see a fast-disappearing historic opportunity: well-managed urban growth has the potential to provide more solutions than problems.' Billy Cobbett, Manager of Cities Alliance 'We need to recognize the centrality of urbanization's challenges and their overwhelming impacts, especially in poorer countries ... This book helps overcome national and international resistance to this agenda and, more importantly, indicates alternative approaches that serve to dispel our puzzlement at this gigantic challenge.' Erminia Maricato, Former Undersecretary, Ministry of Cities, BrazilTable of ContentsIntroduction * Part I: Urban Transitions * The Demography of the Urban Transition: What We Know and Don t Know * Urbanization, Poverty and Inequity: Is Rural-Urban Migration a Poverty Problem, or Part of the Solution? * Demographic and Urban Transitions in a Global System and Policy Responses * Part II: Shelter and Urban Poverty * Land and Services for the Urban Poor in Rapidly Urbanizing Countries * Informality and Poverty in Latin American Urban Policies * Preparing for Urban Expansion: A Proposed Strategy for Intermediate Cities in Ecuador * Organizations of the Urban Poor and Equitable Urban Development: Process and Product * Part III: The Social and Sustainable Use of Space * Urban Sustainability and Global Environmental Change: Reflections for an Urban Agenda * Risks of Climate Change for Urban Settlements in Low Elevation Coastal Zones * Urbanization and Ecosystems: Current Patterns and Future Implications * Urban Sprawl: A Challenge for Sustainability * Part IV: The Changing Face of Urban Demography and its Challenges * Notes on Urban-Rural Poverty Projections and the Role of Migration * Women‘s Empowerment and Gender Equality in Urban Settings: New Vulnerabilities and Opportunities * Young People in an Urban World * Urbanization and Ageing in Developing Countries * Confronting Urbanization and the AIDS Epidemic: A Double-Edged Sword * Providing Information for Social Progress in Urban Areas * Part V: Regional Patterns of Urbanization and Linkages to Development * African Urbanization: Recent Trends and Implications * Socioeconomic Heterogeneity in Urban India * The Urban Transition in China: Trends, Consequences and Policy Implications * Urbanization in Latin America and the Caribbean: Experiences and Lessons Learned * Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Cities: An Environmental History
Book SynopsisCities are amongst our greatest creations. Yet, with cities now home to over half the world's population, there is increasing concern over their unchecked expansion and the detrimental effect this is having on the planet. This unfettered growth is affecting every ecosystem on Earth, from the deepest oceans to the highest mountains, as induced climate change and ever increasing demands upon the world's resources take effect. As the pace of urbanisation quickens, how can we make the world's cities more sustainable? Ian Douglas tells the story of cities. He shows why they exist, how they have evolved and the problems they have encountered, revealing how from the very beginning environmental management played a key role in urban life. He addresses specific problems, such as noise and air pollution, water supply and waste management, as well as the vulnerability of cities to hazards such as earthquakes and flooding. And he considers strategies to make cities more sustainable and help them adapt to climate change, such as waste recycling, energy conservation, dual water systems, sustainable housing, as well as initiatives to retrofit existing cities. Written by an acknowledged international authority, this unique volume will be welcomed by students and specialists in environment, planning, geography, ecology and the built environment.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Trading Village to Global Megalopolis: The Origins and Expansion of Cities Chapter 2: Communities Responding to Disasters and Threats: Vulnerable and Resiliant Cities Chapter 3: Foods, Goods, Materials and Ornaments: The Metabolism of Cities Chapter 4: Smoke, Fumes, Dust and Smog: Changing the Atmosphere of Cities Chapter 5: Water from the Hills, the Ground, the Sea and the Roof: Towards Integrated Water Resource Management in Cities Chapter 6: Sanitation, Sewage and Mountains of Trash: Wastewater and Garbage in Cities Chapter 7: Urban Sounds and Smells: The Noisy, Aromatic City Chapter 8: Cities and a Dynamic Earth: Urban Changes to the Land Surface and Responses to Geophysical Hazards Chapter 9: Urban Greenspaces: The Tamed and Wild Nature in Cities Chapter 10: Urban Sustainability: Cities for Future Generations Final Thoughs Notes Bibliography Index
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Policy Press Urban transformation and urban governance: Shaping the competitive city of the future
Book SynopsisThis report addresses key challenges facing policy makers, practitioners and academics in their efforts to understand and impact on the changing nature of urban environments today. Combining a detailed case study of the city of Bristol with wide-ranging information and analysis from other sources, the report looks at: the dynamics of employment and population change including the challenges of household growth, urban expansion and new patterns of edge-city development; urban renaissance, urban renewal and the prospects for a turn-around in the fortunes of urban areas; patterns and processes of social exclusion and social polarisation, persisting even in the face of competitive success; the role of the new knowledge-based sectors including financial and business services and the cultural and media sectors; the changing spatial architecture of urban and regional governance and its capacity to shape the towns and cities of the future. Urban transformation and urban governance is essential reading for practitioners and policy makers with an interest in urban policy, regeneration and renewal; voluntary and community sector workers; and academics and students.Trade Review"... a useful model for councils wishing to develop a robust understanding of the environment in which they operate." Local Government First"... a coherent approach to the detailed study of urban policy, its strengths lie in empirical description rather than critical analysis and/or theoretical evaluation." AreaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction ~ Martin Boddy; The changing city ~ Martin Boddy; Reshaping the city ~ Christine Lambert and Ian Smith; City of money? ~ Shaun French and Andrew Leyshon; City of culture? ~ Keith Bassett, Ron Griffiths and Ian Smith; Social exclusion and the polarised city ~ Martin Boddy; Towards collaborative capacity ~ Murray Stewart; Conclusions: shaping the urban future ~ Martin Boddy.
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