Full Description
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 changing forms of urban deprivation and social exclusion. It contends that these processes are creating new patterns of social division and new forms of regulation and control.
Contents
List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Transforming Cities: Social Exclusion and the Reinvention of Partnership Part I: Framing the City 1. Transforming Cities: Social Process and Spatial Form 2. The Entrepreneurial City: Re-Imagining Localities, Redesigning Economic Governance, or Restructuring Capital? 3. Post-Fordism and Criminality 4. Cool Times for a Changing City Part II: Managing and Measuring City Life 5. Beyond 'Culture City': Glasgow as a 'Dual City' 6. 'Race', Housing and the City 7. Violence, Space and Gender: The Social and Spatial Parameters of Violence Against Women and Men 8. Challenging Perceptions: 'Community' and Neighbourliness on a Difficult-To-Let Estate Part III: New Forms of Regulation: Partnership and Empowerment 9. Hegemony and Regime in Urban Governance: Towards a Theory of the Locally Networked State 10. Urban Partnerships, Economic Regeneration an the 'Healthy City' 11. Policing Late Modernity: Changing Strategies of Crime Management in Contemporary Britain 12. Poverty and Partnership in the Third European Poverty Programme: The Liverpool Case Part IV: The Politics of Exclusion and Resistance 13. Downtown Redevelopment and Community Resistance: An International Perspective 14. Religion, Education and City Politics: A Case Study of Community Mobilisation 15. Poverty, Excluded Communities and Local Democracy Bibliography Index
