Transforming cities: contested governance and new spatial divisions

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

Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; TRANSFORMING CITIES; 1 CONTESTED CITIES: Social process and spatial form; 2 THE ENTREPRENEURIAL CITY; 3 POST-FORDISM AND CRIMINALITY; 4 COOL TIMES FOR A CHANGING CITY; 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-estate

9 HEGEMONY AND REGIME IN URBAN GOVERNANCE: Towards a theory of the locally networked state10 URBAN PARTNERSHIPS, ECONOMIC REGENERATION AND 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; 13 DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY RESISTANCE: An international perspective; 14 RELIGION, EDUCATION AND CITY POLITICS: A case study of community mobilisation; 15 POVERTY, EXCLUDED COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL DEMOCRACY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX