ISBN-13: 9781861345295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 112 str.
This report addresses key challenges facing policy makers, practitioners and academics in their efforts to understand and impact on the changing nature of urban environments today.Combining a detailed case study of the city of Bristol with wide-ranging information and analysis from other sources, the report looks at: the dynamics of employment and population change including the challenges of household growth, urban expansion and new patterns of edge-city development; urban renaissance, urban renewal and the prospects for a turn-around in the fortunes of urban areas;patterns and processes of social exclusion and social polarisation, persisting even in the face of competitive success;the role of the new knowledge-based sectors including financial and business services and the cultural and media sectors;the changing spatial architecture of urban and regional governance and its capacity to shape the towns and cities of the future.. vbTab]Urban transformation and urban governance is essential reading for practitioners and policy makers with an interest in urban policy, regeneration and renewal; voluntary and community sector workers; and academics and students."