City visions : imagining place, enfranchising people / edited by Frank Gaffikin and Mike Morrissey.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaffikin, Frank.

Morrissey, Mike, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--Northern Ireland--Belfast.

City planning.

City planning--Europe.

City planning--United States.

Urbanization--Northern Ireland--Belfast.

Urbanization.

Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Social conditions.

Belfast (Northern Ireland).

Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Covering a range of North American and European cities, but focusing on Belfast's social, economic and political developments, this collection considers the role of long-term urban planning in the development of cities. The major cities of the West are characterised by division, uneven development and unequal distribution of jobs. In Belfast these general Western urban characteristics are extended and heightened by association with a long-standing political crisis and low-intensity conflict. Covering a range of North American and European cities, but focusing on Belfast's social, economic and political developments, this collection considers the role of long-term urban planning in the development of cities. The authors integrate global debates on urban development and summarise contemporary theories on cities and their future. An assortment of interventions and delivery mechanisms are considered, and among the key topics covered are urban economies and social exclusion; the planning of city regions; the sustainable city; urban regeneration; the role of culture in remaking cities; and the future governance of cities. By viewing the subject from a local perspective, as well as in an international context, the authors provide a stimulating critique which will guide policy makers, planners, students and others concerned with urban regeneration.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Introduction

Visioning Beyond Division: The Case of Belfast

The Source of this Book

Notes

1 Understanding the Contemporary City

The End of Keynes

Welfarism Under Threat

A New Production System

Post-Industrialism: 'From Welders to Waiters'?

Disorganised Capitalism

The Urban and Post-modernity

Implications for the Social Production of Space

The Particularity of Place

Researching the Urban in Northern Ireland

2 The Urban Economy and Social Exclusion: The Case of Belfast

The Belfast Urban Economy: Regional Context

Belfast

Social Exclusion and the City

Conclusions

3 The Future Planning of City Regions

From the 1960s to the 1990s: How Much is Different?

Deconcentration: A Fact of Urban Life

The Nonplace Urban Realm: Here at Last?

A Global Urban Hierarchy

Flows, Corridors and Blue Bananas

The Central Contradiction of Regional Planning

The Relevance for Belfast

4 The Just City and the Efficient City

City Neighbourhoods

5 Sustainable Cities

The Difficult Goal of Sustainable Cities

Defining the Sustainable City

The Sustainable City: The US experience

Locating the Urban in a Regional Context

Conclusion

6 Urban Regeneration: Lessons from Europe and the UK

Lessons from Europe - the Rise of the Entrepreneurial City

European Cities Towards 2000

Lessons from Urban Regeneration in the UK

The New Urban Entrepreneurialism 1979-92

The Impact of Urban Entrepreneurialism

Future Policy Issues

7 Urban Regeneration: The New Policy Agenda

Changes in the Policy Context: The Urban Problem: Changes in Definition

Competitive Bidding

The Single Regeneration Budget

Revision of the Single Regeneration Budget.

City Pride: An Initiative for Strategic Thinking?

Changes in Funding

Alternative Agendas in Britain

The View from Scotland

The European Dimension

Urban Trends in Europe

The Europeanisation of Urban Policy

The US Experience 1950s-1990s

Similarities Between UK and US Urban Policy

US Urban Policy Now

Urban Policy: What Way Forward?

8 The Role of Culture in Remaking Cities

The Interlocking Crises of Cities

Cities Cannot Think in Nineteenth-Century Forms about Twenty-first-Century Contexts

The Sources of Visioning

Five Models of Visioning

How to Vision?

Recruit, Recognise and Renew Leadership

9 The Role of Culture in the Regeneration of a Divided City: The Case of Belfast

Creating the Post-Industrial Belfast?

Social and Sectarian Division

A Tale of Two Cities: Downtown versus Neighbourhoods?

Consumption Over Investment?

The Role of Arts and Culture in Belfast's Regeneration

Culture in a Divided City

10 The Future Governance of Cities

The Broad Context

Rethinking Urban Governance: Three Models

Three Examples from North East England

Building Urban Institutional Capacity

11 Belfast: A Partnership Approach to Local Governance

Northern Ireland and Belfast: The Government Context

The Partnership Approach in Belfast

Variety of Partnerships in Belfast

Common Features of Belfast Partnerships

Problems with Belfast's Partnerships

The Future of the Partnership Approach in Local Governance

12 Conclusion: The Development of Cities and the Future of Belfast

Changed Times: Changed Theory

The Urban Problem

Urban Regeneration: Contradictions and Dilemmas

Alternative Principles

Conceptualisation

Process and Implementation

The European Context

Final Comments

Notes on Contributors.

Index

accessible city, concept of, 216

accountability, in traditional governance model, 184-5

Action for Cities [DoE][

Action for Cities [DoE][ 104

Action for Cities [DoE][ 118

active citizenship 208

Adelaide 158

agency

229

in development models, 221

in development models, 222

in partnerships, 118

agglomeration, advantages of

80

81-2

Allegheny Conference [Pittsburgh]

157-8

162

Alpine-Mediterranean area, urban growth 129-30

Amsterdam

70

107

128

Anglo-Irish Agreement [1985]

196

199

animation authority, role of 162

Antwerp

arts

cultural corridor model, 171-3

economic significance of, 169-70

relationship with economy, 174-7

role in regeneration, 169-77

Baltimore

157

158

Barcelona

105

Beirut 158

43-6

196-7

alternative agendas, 123

Castle Court, 167

Castle Court, 178

city centre regeneration, 164-5

city centre regeneration, 199

city centre regeneration, 202

compared with Chicago, 79-80

economy in regional context, 36-43

education system, 36

household income, 50

Laganside waterfront, 164

Laganside waterfront, 166

Laganside waterfront, 178

Laganside waterfront, 199

non-sectarian groups, 178-9

partnerships in, 199-204

political recovery, 167-8

population fall, 44

population fall, 66

population fall, 75

population fall, 165-6

proposed strategy for, 74-6

residential segregation, 44

role of arts in regeneration, 169-77

role of district council, 202-3

sectarian division in, 165-7

social programmes for, 87-8

Vision for the Future, 204

visioning model for, 158-9

Waterfront Concert Hall, 170

Waterfront Concert Hall, 199.

Belfast Areas of Need Programme 210

Belfast City Council

198-9

Laganside partnership, 202

proportionality in, 199

proportionality in, 204

Belfast City Partnership Board, xiii-xvi

201

204

Belfast European Partnership Board

200

203

Belfast Harbour Commissioners 199

Belfast Urban Area, relative deprivation

51

52

Belgium, regionalism in 108

Birmingham

12

122

Blue Banana [Brunet's] 72

borders, international 72

Bosnia 194

brownfield development

66

100

Brundtland Report [1987]

205

on sustainable development, 90

Brussels

Business in the Community [Belfast] 200

business leaders

160-1

in City Challenge partnerships, 190-1

business model 157-8

business support, for arts development 172

capitalism

231

and financial deregulation, 9-10

and welfare funding crisis, 6-7

disorganised, 13-14

capitalist development, phases of

22-3

24-5

carbon tax, as option 93

Central Business District plans [US] 132

central government

and democratic deficit, 184

and new planning policies, 110

and new planning policies, 142

Budget, 120

lack of co-ordination within, 111

Centre for Local Economic Strategies, policy papers 124

change agent, role of 161-2

Chaos Theory 16

characteristics of 108-9

charismatic leader-led model 157

Chattanooga 158

Chicago

79

81

88

Chichester family, Belfast 197

cities

and deindustrialisation, 17

and deindustrialisation, 19-21

and deindustrialisation, 24-5

autonomy for, 107

changes, 34-6

changes, 208-9

changes, 209

changes, 211

collective psychologies, 151-2

deconcentration of, 66-7

deconcentration of, 72

density, 81-2.

density, 100-1

density, 128

diversity, 82

economic advantages of, 80

economic advantages of, 81-2

effect of Urban Programme, 111

efficient market niches, 130

hierarchy among, 69-71

interlocking crises of, 152-4

inward movement to, 73

inward movement to, 128

just and efficient, 87-8

loss of employment, 66-7

outward movement from, 72-3

population drift from, 20

population drift from, 66

population drift from, 106-7

potential for failure, 159

role of neighbourhoods, 84-6

role of neighbourhoods, 214

role of neighbourhoods, 216-17

sources of funding, 111

sources of funding, 118

visioning in successful, 154-5

visioning models, 157-9

City Challenge initiative

104

112-13

funding, 118

funding, 119

funding, 123

Tyneside, 190-1

city governance

21

24

208

building institutional capacity, 192

importance of, 117

importance of, 183

multiple initiatives model, 186-7

multiple initiatives model, 186

North East England examples, 189-92

policy objectives, 183

role for, 35-6

strategic capacity-building model, 187-8

tendencies in, 185

traditional model, 184-6

traditional model, 185

City Grant

138

141

City Pride initiative 122

city regions

concept of, 61-4

flows between, 71-2

integrated planning strategies, 99-100

civic capacity 159-60

civic pride 153

civil society 230

class, and crisis of welfarism 7

Cleveland 157

co-learning 155

coalitions, in local government 112

collaboration

leadership for, 163

partnerships, 159-60

Cologne 128

Comedia 151-2

commercialisation

173

and leisure industry, 174

social and political role of, 164

social and political role of, 169-77

to transcend sectarianism, 177-9.

Commission for Social Justice, report 124.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781849640183

1849640181

9780585425528

0585425523

OCLC:

923330221