City matters : competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance / edited by Martin Boddy and Michael Parkinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boddy, Martin.

Parkinson, Michael, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Great Britain.

Cities and towns.

Great Britain.

City planning--Great Britain.

City planning.

Municipal government--Great Britain.

Municipal government.

Urban policy--Great Britain.

Urban policy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 448 pages : illustrations, tables, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Pess, 2004.

Contents:

Part 1 Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance

2 Sources of city prosperity and cohesion: the case of Glasgow and Edinburgh / Ivan Turok, Nick Bailey, Rowland Atkinson, Glen Bramley, Iain Docherty, Ken Gibb, Robina Goodlad, Annette Hastings, Keith Kintrea, Karryn Kirk, Joe Leibovitz, Bill Lever, Jimmy Morgan, Ronan Paddison 13

3 Reinventing cities in a restructuring region? The rhetoric and reality of renaissance in Liverpool and Manchester / Alan Harding, Iain Deas, Richard Evans, Stuart Wilks-Heeg 33

4 Competitiveness and cohesion in a prosperous city-region: the case of Bristol / Martin Boddy, Keith Bassett, Shaun French, Ron Griffiths, Christine Lambert, Andrew Leyshon, Ian Smith, Murray Stewart, Nigel Thrift 51

5 London: competitiveness, cohesion and the policy environment / Ian Gordon, Belinda Brown, Nick Buck, Peter Hall, Michael Harloe, Mark Kleinman, Karen O'Reilly, Gareth Potts, Laura Smethurst, Jo Sparkes 71

Part 2 Competitiveness and urban change

6 Urban growth and competitiveness in Britain: a long-run perspective / Barry Moore, Iain Begg 93

7 Migration, residential preferences and the changing environment of cities / Tony Champion, Tania Fisher 111

8 Cities are not isolated states / Paul Cheshire, Stefano Magrini, Francesca Medda, Vassilis Monastiriotis 129

Part 3 Competitiveness, innovation and the knowledge economy

9 Competitiveness as cohesion: social capital and the knowledge economy / Philip Cooke 153

10 Innovation clusters and competitive cities in the UK and Europe / James Simmie 171

Part 4 Housing, property and economic performance

11 The role of housing in city economic performance / Geoffrey Meen, Mark Andrew 199

12 Economic structures, urban responses: framing and negotiating urban property development / Simon Guy, John Henneberry 217

Part 5 Space, place and social cohesion

13 Does spatial concentration of disadvantage contribute to social exclusion? / Nick Buck, Ian Gordon 237

14 The 'good' suburb as an urban asset in enhancing a city's competitiveness / Peter Halfpenny, Nadia Joanne Britton, Fiona Devine, Rosemary Mellor 255

15 The middle class and the future of London / Tim Butler 269

Part 6 Ethnicity, enterprise and social cohesion

16 Whose hidden assets? Inner-city potential for social cohesion and economic competitiveness / Jo Foord, Norman Ginsburg 287

17 Ethnic minority enterprise in an inner-city context: the case of the independent restaurant sector in Birmingham / Trevor Jones, Monder Ram, Tahir Abbas 307

18 Youth employment, racialised gendering and school-work transitions / Sophie Bowlby, Sally Lloyd Evans, Clare Roche 323

Part 7 Leadership, governance and social capital

19 Leadership and partnership in urban governance: evidence from London, Bristol and Glasgow / David Sweeting, Robin Hambleton, Chris Huxham, Murray Stewart, Siv Vangen 349

20 'Pathways to integration': tackling social exclusion on Merseyside / Richard Meegan 367

21 Voluntary organisations and the generation of social capital in city politics / Gerry Stoker, Graham Smith, William Maloney, Stephen Young 389

22 Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance / Martin Boddy, Michael Parkinson 407.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1861344449

OCLC:

55799621