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Transforming cities : contested governance and new spatial divisions / edited by Nick Jewson and Susanne MacGregor. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1997. - 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.

pt. 1. Framing the city -- pt. 2. Managing and measuring city life -- pt. 3. New forms of regulation : partnership and empowerment -- pt. 4. The politics of exclusion and resistance.

Open Access

This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns of urban deprivation and social exclusion. These processes, they contend, are creating new patterns of social division and new forms of regulation an.


English.

ISBN: 0203991303 9780203991305 9780415146036 0415146038 9780415146043 0415146046 9786610146376 6610146373 1134758219 9781134758210 1280146370 9781280146374

Standard Tech. Report. No.: MYILIB_CUp

Publisher. No.: 9786610146376

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sociology, Urban--Great Britain.
Cities and towns--Great Britain.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--Urban.
Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Soziokultureller Faktor
Stadt
Strukturwandel
Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling.
Stedelijk beleid.
Internationalisatie.
Uitsluiting.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Great Britain.
Gro�britannien

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HT133 / .T74 1997eb

Dewey Class. No.: 307.76/0941