Everything in seventeen year old Joanna's life seemed to be going her way: an honor roll student, living in a penthouse with her brother in Toronto, and some new friends who are looking out for her. So how did she go from having the perfect teenage life one night, to sitting on the floor of a local jail cell the next? As she reflects back on the past year, she wonders if she'll ever be able to go back to how things were with her brother and her friends, or will she be spending many more nights like this one, alone on the floor of a jail cell just wishing she could go back and change the one...

This edited volume is a lively and timely appraisal of ordinary cities as they struggle to implement creative redevelopment and economic growth strategies to enhance their global competitiveness. The book is concerned with new and often unanticipated inequalities that have emerged from this new city movement. As chronicled, such cities Cleveland (USA), Heidelberg (Germany), Oxford (UK), Groningen (Netherlands), Montpellier (France), but also cities from the Global South such as Cachoeira (Brazil) and Delhi (India) now experience new and unexpected realities of poverty, segregation, neglect of...