Cities in contemporary Europe
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Cities in contemporary Europe
Cambridge University Press, 2000
- : hard
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-211) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
European cities are at the centre of social, political and economic changes in Western Europe. This book proposes a new research agenda in urban sociology and politics applying primarily to European cities, in particular those that together make up the urban structure of Europe: a fabric of older cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, regional capitals and smaller state capitals. The contributors develop an analytical framework which views cities as local societies, and as collective factors and site for modes of governance. The three parts of the book examine the economics of cities, the social structures, and the modes and processes of governance. Each chapter comprises a comparison across several countries and examines critically the book's central theoretical perspective. This is not a book about the making of a Europe of cities but rather about how some cities can take advantage of their changing global and European environment.
Table of Contents
- Introduction Arnaldo Bagnasco and Patrick Le Gales
- 1. European cities in the world economy Pierre Veltz
- 2. Spatial images of European urbanisation Giuseppe Dematteis
- 3. Segregation, class and politics in large cities Edmond Preteceille
- 4. Social structure in medium-sized cities compared Marco Oberti
- 5. Different cities in different welfare states Juhani Lehto
- 6. Social movements in European cities: transitions from the 1970s to the 1990s Margit Mayer
- 7. The construction of urban services models Dominique Lorrain
- 8. Private sector interests and urban governance Patrick Le Gales.
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