Transforming Cities: Contested Governance and New Spatial Divisions [Hardcover]

Transforming Cities examines the profound changes that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the twentieth century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and co-operation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. This book focuses on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban deprivation and social exclusion. It contends that these processes are creating new patterns of social division and new forms of regulation and control.

List of Tables  List of Contributors  Acknowledgements  Transforming Cities: Social Exclusion and the Reinvention of Partnership  Part I: Framing the City  1. Transforming Cities: Social Process and Spatial Form  2. The Entrepreneurial City: Re-Imagining Localities, Redesigning Economic Governance, or Restructuring Capital?  3. Post-Fordism and Criminality  4. Cool Times for a Changing City  Part II: Managing and Measuring City Life  5. Beyond Culture City: Glasgow as a Dual City  6. Race, Housing and the City  7. Violence, Space and Gender: The Social and Spatial Parameters of Violence Against Women and Men  8. Challenging Perceptions: Community and Neighbourliness on a Difficult-To-Let Estate  Part III: New Forms of Regulation: Partnership and Empowerment  9. Hegemony and Regime in Urban Governance: Towards a Theory of the Locally Networked State  10. Urban Partnerships, Economic Regeneration an the Healthy City  11. Policing Late Modernity: Changing Strategies of Crime Management in Contemporary Britain  12. Poverty and Partnership in the Third European Poverty Programme: The Liverpool Case  Part IV: The Polló”