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This book, written by a leading sociologist, tells Edinburgh's modern story and unveils its power structure. It examines its politics, formal and informal; its changing political economy; and the rise of its status as Festival city. Behind all this lies a complex system of money and culture, of presumed social status tied into a hierarchy of schools and institutions, universities, banks and finance houses. The book explores arguments about what sort of city Edinburgh should be and what it should look like. It examines planning controversies, from post-war developments through various 'holes in the ground' up to and including The Trams controversy. Studying Edinburgh lets us draw lessons about cities in general, and their roles in the modern world.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Who Runs Edinburgh?
Studying Power
From City to State and beyond
The Ecology of Games
Who governs this place?
Getting at Who Governs
Edinburgh Games
A Tale of Two Cities
Tackling the question
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Politics in Edinburgh
The rise and fall of political parochialism
Early 20th Century municipal politics
Inter-War Municipal Politics
Post-war politics
The political economy of Edinburgh
People of property
Segregation in Edinburgh
Conclusion
Chapter 3: Winners and Losers: The Political Economy of Edinburgh
Edinburgh Castes
Edinburgh Today
The Transformation of Edinburgh
Abercrombie's Edinburgh
Twenty Years On
Edinburgh: City of Money
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Treading Angels: Edinburgh and its Festivals
Branding Place
Festival Dreaming
The Fringe on Top
Whose Festival is it anyway?
Keeping the show on the road
He who pays the piper
Regime change
Supporting Casts and Noises Off
'Up a winding staircase'
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Are You One of Us? Status in the City
The social worlds of Edinburgh
The world of clubs
Elites in Edinburgh
In the Company of Merchants
A Club of One's Own
Does the New Club matter?
What are clubs for?
Changing Members
Anecdotage
The politics of the New Club
Conclusion: knowing who your friends are
Chapter 6: What school did you go to? Education and Status in Edinburgh
Paying the fees
Eton of the North
Day Schools
Educating ladies
Attacking Fees: the end of grant-aid
Going Independent
Documenting schools
What's the Pay-Off?
An Edinburgh ruling caste?
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Enlightened City: Cultural Power and University Life
Understanding the Tounis College
The making of a university
The university versus the city
Whose university is it anyway?
The Englishing of Scotland?
City of Enlightenment
Professional Edinburgh
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Developing Edinburgh: Pies in the Sky, Holes in the Ground
City as Growth Machine
Out on the Edge
Edinburgh Park
The BioQuarter
Shawfair
Downtown Developments: There Shall be a Scottish Parliament
What's in a Name? from St James Centre to Edinburgh St James
Caltongate (No More)
Back to the Periphery: The Waterfront
What's in it, and for whom?
Conclusion: Whose city is it anyway?
Chapter 9: Lost in Leith: Accounting for Edinburgh's Trams
Trams: ancient and modern
Reinventing Trams
'Not our project': governing trams
The Council and the Trams
The Blame Game
Trams and agencement
Trams as mega-project
State outsourcing
The Calculable City
Infrastructural Redemption: On to Newhaven
Conclusion: ticket to ride
Chapter 10: Does Anyone Really Run Edinburgh?
Ecology of Games
Presenting Edinburgh
Imaginary city
A Governing They?
Power and politics
Schooling and Status
Performing Edinburgh
Eroding Power
The Decline of Money
Space and Place
Spreading Power
Reading the Papers
Education and status
Edinburgh Others
Female Edinburgh
Working class city
City of Incomers
So does anyone run Edinburgh?
Open for business
Conclusion: smoke and mirrors
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