Managing cities : the new urban context

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Managing cities : the new urban context

edited by Patsy Healey ... [et al.]

J. Wiley, 1995

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Papers from a seminar held in March 1993

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-317) and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780471949220

Description

Policy-makers and researchers are increasingly concerned with the quality of urban areas, their local economies and social conditions, yet major problems exist in understanding the nature of the economic, social and political changes as these impact on the urban environment. Without such understanding, any move towards managing change in cities is obstructed. Featuring contributions from urban planners in Europe and the USA, this study interprets the contemporary dynamics of the social relations of urban regions and their implications for urban governance. The contributors build on research in urban political economy and debates on modernism and postmodernism, Fordism and post-Fordism. The conceptual and empirical challenges of understanding the future of urban change and urban management are reviewed, focusing on the relational networks through which people in firms, households and government agencies are linked together.

Table of Contents

  • The City: Crisis, Change and Invention
  • PART 1 - READING THE CITY: Collective Emotion and Urban Culture
  • PART 2 - THE CITY ECONOMY: Globalization, Institutional "Thickness" and the Local Economy
  • Urban Redevelopment and Public Policy in London and New York
  • PART 3 - INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND POWER: Information Systems and Territorial Administration: a New Power Struggle, or More Multi-Actor Rational Organization
  • PART 4 - HOUSEHOLDS COPING WITH CHANGE: Social and Employment Change in the New Urban Arena
  • PART 5 - DILEMMAS OF URBAN GOVERNANCE: Urban Governance in the Post-Fordist City
  • Challenges for Urban Management.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780471955337

Description

Policy-makers and researchers are increasingly concerned with the quality of urban areas, their local economies and social conditions, yet major problems exist in understanding the nature of the economic, social and political changes as these impact on the urban environment. Without such understanding, any move towards managing change in cities is obstructed. Featuring contributions from urban planners in Europe and the USA, this study interprets the contemporary dynamics of the social relations of urban regions and their implications for urban governance. The contributors build on research in urban political economy and debates on modernism and postmodernism, Fordism and post-Fordism. The conceptual and empirical challenges of understanding the future of urban change and urban management are reviewed, focusing on the relational networks through which people in firms, households and government agencies are linked together.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents: READING THE CITY (A. Madani-Pour). Collective Emotion and Urban Culture (K. Robins). THE CITY ECONOMY (S. Graham). Globalisation, Institutional "Thickness" and the Local Economy (A. Amin and N. Thrift). INFRASTRUCTURE, TECHNOLOGY AND POWER (P. Healey). Information Systems and Territorial Administration: A New Power Struggle, or Multi-Actor Rational Organisation (J. Laterasse and H. Pauchard). HOUSEHOLDS COPING WITH CHANGE (S. Cameron). Social and Employment Change in the Urban Arena (E. Mingione). DILEMMAS OF URBAN GOVERNANCE (S. Davoudi). Urban Governance in the Post-Fordist City (M. Mayer). References. Index.

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