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This analysis of Manchester's urban transformation asks whether the "new Manchester" has engineered an urban renaissance, or is on a slide into the post-industrial sludge of economic insecurity and social polarisation?

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Placing Manchester - Jamie Peck and Kevin Ward
2. Global Manchester: From globaliser to globalised - Peter Dicken
3. Macunian ways: Politics of regeneration - Brian Robson
4. Economic transitions: Restructuring local labour markets - Benito Giordano and Laura Twomey
5. Entrepreneurial turns: Municipal socialism and after - Steve Quilley
6. Olympic dreams: Visions of partnership - Allan Cochrane, Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell
7. Metropolitan manoeuvres: Making Greater Manchester - Iain Deas and Kevin Ward
8. Bomb sites: Politics of opportunity - Adam Holden
9. City building: Redevelopment in Manchester - Gwyndaf Williams
10. Regional tensions: Constructing institutional cohesion? - Martin Jones and Gordon Macleod
11. Poor Manchester: Old problems and new deals - Dean Herd and Terry Patterson
12. Hypocritical city: Cycles of urban exclusion - Rosemary Mellor
Bibliography

City of Revolution Restructuring Manchester

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 8/29/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719058882, 978-0719058882
      ISBN10: 0719058880

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This analysis of Manchester's urban transformation asks whether the "new Manchester" has engineered an urban renaissance, or is on a slide into the post-industrial sludge of economic insecurity and social polarisation?

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. Placing Manchester - Jamie Peck and Kevin Ward
      2. Global Manchester: From globaliser to globalised - Peter Dicken
      3. Macunian ways: Politics of regeneration - Brian Robson
      4. Economic transitions: Restructuring local labour markets - Benito Giordano and Laura Twomey
      5. Entrepreneurial turns: Municipal socialism and after - Steve Quilley
      6. Olympic dreams: Visions of partnership - Allan Cochrane, Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell
      7. Metropolitan manoeuvres: Making Greater Manchester - Iain Deas and Kevin Ward
      8. Bomb sites: Politics of opportunity - Adam Holden
      9. City building: Redevelopment in Manchester - Gwyndaf Williams
      10. Regional tensions: Constructing institutional cohesion? - Martin Jones and Gordon Macleod
      11. Poor Manchester: Old problems and new deals - Dean Herd and Terry Patterson
      12. Hypocritical city: Cycles of urban exclusion - Rosemary Mellor
      Bibliography

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