Corporate city? : partnership, participation and partition in urban development in Leeds

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Corporate city? : partnership, participation and partition in urban development in Leeds

edited by Graham Haughton and Colin C. Williams

(Urban and regional planning and development)

Avebury, c1996

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Includes bibliographical references

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Description

Examining the many different dimensions of the distinctive restructuring of the city of Leeds, this study covers aspects of the transformation of the economy of the region detailing the new growth sectors. It also addresses the ways in which the city's new growth agenda is being pursued.

Table of Contents

  • Leeds - a city of second city syndrome?
  • local leadership and economic regeneration in Leeds
  • the Leeds economy - trends, prospects and challenges
  • exploring the geographies of social polarization in Leeds
  • the economic machine - world class Leeds
  • sectoral policy and manufacturing alliances in the 1990s
  • taking the initiative - the Leeds financial centre
  • consumer services and the competitive city
  • pragmatism, opportunity and entertainment - the arts, culture and urban economic regeneration in Leeds
  • small business development and enterprise support
  • paid informal work in the Leeds hospitality industry - unregulated or regulated work?
  • the environmental challenge - corporate and community responses - greening the Leeds economy - the Leeds Business Environment Forum
  • inventing a better place - urban design in Leeds in the post-war era
  • conflicts over open space
  • transport and personal accessibility in Leeds
  • local capacity and challenges to social segregation - tackling female exclusion in the labour market - an evaluation of the Opportunity 2000 programme in Leeds
  • social inequalities, housing needs and the targeting of housing investment in Leeds
  • black communities and processes of exclusion.

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