City matters ：Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance

Publication subTitle ：Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance

Author： Boddy   Martin (Editor)   Parkinson   Michael (Editor)  

Publisher： Policy Press‎

Publication year： 2004

E-ISBN: 9781847425911

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781861344441

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9781861344458

Subject： C91 Sociology

Keyword： Urban & municipal planning

Language： ENG

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City matters

Description

This book provides, in a single volume, a review of the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research in the UK, the Economic and Social Research Council's 'Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion programme'. Leading experts present the findings of this wide-ranging programme organised around themes of competitiveness, social cohesion and the role of policy and governance. The book develops our understanding of key processes, issues and concepts critical to cities and urban change and examines a large body of evidence on a wide range of policy issues at the heart of current debates about the performance of cities and the prospects for urban renaissance. City matters is essential reading for all policy makers, practitioners, analysts and academics with an interest or involvement in urban issues. 

Chapter

CITY MATTERS

Contents

List of tables and figures

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

1. Introduction

2. Sources of city prosperity and cohesion: the case of Glasgow and Edinburgh

3. Reinventing cities in a restructuring region? The rhetoric and reality of renaissance in Liverpool and Manchester

4. Competitiveness and cohesion in a prosperous city-region: the case of Bristol

5. London: competitiveness, cohesion and the policy environment

6. Urban growth and competitiveness in Britain: a long-run perspective

7. Migration, residential preferences and the changing environment of cities

8. Cities are not isolated states

9. Competitiveness as cohesion: social capital and the knowledge economy

10. Innovation clusters and competitive cities in the UK and Europe

11. The role of housing in city economic performance

12. Economic structures, urban responses: framing and negotiating urban property development

13. Does spatial concentration of disadvantage contribute to social exclusion?

14. The ‘good’ suburb as an urban asset in enhancing a city’s competitiveness

15. The middle class and the future of London

16. Whose hidden assets? Inner-city potential for social cohesion and economic competitiveness

17. Ethnic minority enterprise in an inner-city context: the case of the independent restaurant sector in Birmingham

18. Youth employment, racialised gendering and school–work transitions

19. Leadership and partnership in urban governance: evidence from London, Bristol and Glasgow

20. ‘Pathways to integration’: tackling social exclusion on Merseyside

21. Voluntary organisations and the generation of social capital in city politics

22. Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance

Index

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