Changing Cities: Rethinking Urban Competitiveness, Cohesion and Governance

ISBN-13: 9781403906793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 336 str.

Ivan Turok; Nick Buck; Ian Gordon

Opis

A new conventional wisdom, spanning academic and policy communities, sees a combination of economic competitiveness, social cohesion and responsive governance as essential for survival in the post-1980s world - and cities as crucial to achieving these goals. This interdisciplinary text provides the first critical examination of these ideas, drawing on the UK Cities research programme and other recent research. It combines analysis of the competitiveness-cohesion-governance problematic with examination of the major processes underlying key sectors of the urban economy, physical development, social relations, neighbourhoods and urban policy.

Spis treści

Cities in the New Conventional Wisdom; I.Gordon & N.Buck.- PART I: CONCEPTS.- Cities, Competition and Competitiveness: Identifying New Connections; I.Turok.- Social Cohesion in Cities; N.Buck.- Governance and Socio-economic Change in Cities; A.Harding.- Integrating Cities; I.Gordon.- PART II: KEY SECTORS, PROCESSES AND INSTITUTIONS.- Knowledge, Innovation and the Competitiveness of Cities; P.Cooke & J. Simmie.- The Locational Dynamics of Financial Services in Regional Cities; N.Bailey & S.French.- Urban Dilemmas of Competition and Cohesion in Cultural Policy; K.Bassett, I.Smith, M.Banks & J.O'Connor.- Neighbourhoods and Poverty: Linking Place and Social Exclusion; R.Atkinson, N.Buck & K.Kintrea.- Gentrification; T.Butler.- Governance, Social Cohesion and Neighbourhood Participation; R.Goodlad & R.Meegan.- Synchronization, Salesmanship and Service Delivery: Governance and Urban Competitiveness; I.Deas.- Urban Properties: Spaces, Places and the Property Business; S.Guy, J.Henneberry & G.Bramley.- How Urban Labour Markets Matter; I.Gordon & I.Turok.- Conclusion: Moving Beyond the Conventional Wisdom; N.Buck, I.Gordon, A.Harding & I.Turok.

O autorze

NICK BUCK is Professor and Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK.

IAN GORDON is Professor of Human Geography, London School of Economics, UK.

ALAN HARDING is Professor of Urban and Regional Governance and Co-Director of the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures, Salford University, UK.

IVAN TUROK is Professor of Urban Economic Development, University of Glasgow, UK.