Planning in divided cities : collaborative shaping of contested space / by Frank Gaffikin, Mike Morrissey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaffikin, Frank.

Contributor:

Morrissey, Mike, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

City planning--United States.

City planning.

City planning--Northern Ireland--Belfast.

Urbanization--United States.

Urbanization.

Urbanization--Northern Ireland--Belfast.

Belfast (Northern Ireland)--Ethnic relations.

Belfast (Northern Ireland).

United States--Ethnic relations.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Does planning in contested cities inadvertedly make the divisions worse? The 60s and 70s saw a strong role of planning, social engineering, etc but there has since been a move towards a more decentralised 'community planning' approach. The book examines urban planning and policy in the context of deeply contested space, where place identity and cultural affinities are reshaping cities. Throughout the world, contentions around identity and territory abound, and in Britain, this problem has found recent expression in debates about multiculturalism and social cohesion. These issues are mos

Contents:

Planning in Divided Cities: Collaborative Shaping of Contested Space; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Part I: Introduction; 1 Introduction; Setting the scene; Outline of structure and argument; 2 Conflict in the Changing City; Forms of urban division; 3 Understanding the Urban; Farewell to Keynesian-Fordist industrialism and welfarism?; Globalisation and neo-liberalism; Urban regime theory; Beyond the First World lens; Making sense of the debate; 4 The Divided City; Introduction; Explanations of division; Ethnicity and urban conflict; Ethno-nationalist contest

The state of conflict and conflict in the state5 Identity, Space, and Urban Planning; Identity and diversity; Multiculturalism and cosmopolitanism; Space and its contestations; Policy and planning responses to diversity; 6 Collaborative Planning and the Divided City; Shifts in planning; The role of collaborative planning; Development and division; Part II: Case Studies; 7 Development Amid Division in US Cities: The Cases of Pittsburgh, Cleveland, and Chicago; Introduction; Pittsburgh: history of partnership?; Cleveland-'mistake on the lake'?; Chicago: the 'spectacular' city; Race and division

Divided city: whose regeneration?8 Contested Space, Contested Sovereignty: The Case of Belfast; Introduction: an unresolved sovereignty contest; Space and political violence; Residential segregation and spatial deprivation after the conflict; Profiling segregated spaces; Segregation and deprivation; Summarising the divided city; Tackling division and deprivation: a difficult agenda; Community cohesion and economic austerity; Moving forward: the role of planning; Facing the future; 9 Between Sovereignty and Pluralism: Other Divided Cities; Divided country-divided city: Nicosia

Divided cities in Britain: Oldham and BradfordPromoting community cohesion in Oldham; Bradford: from ethnic to shared space?; Conclusions; Part III: Conclusion; 10 Planning Amid Division: AWay Forward?; Introduction: the formidable task; The paradoxes of peace building; Planning shared futures in divided cities; The paradoxes of planning in divided cities; The problem of community; From community development to community capacity; The role of planning in narrowing contest; Implications for planning, governance, and capacity; Final considerations; Bibliography; Appendix: Methodology; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613408037

9781283408035

1283408031

9781444393194

1444393197

9781444393187

1444393189

9781444393200

1444393200

OCLC:

742333170