KAZEPOV YURI

Broschiertes Buch

Cities of Europe

Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements, and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion

Herausgeber: Kazepov, Yuri

Beschreibung

Cities of Europe is a unique combination of book and CD-Rom examining the effects of changing contexts on the spatial and political arrangements of western European cities. Comprising a series of contributions by well known scholars from the field of urban studies, the book makes an important contribution to debates about the nature of current socio-economic transformations, the tensions to which they are giving rise, and how western European urban societies are dealing with them. Individual chapters discuss issues such as the distinctive identity of these cities, whether or not segregation is emerging, and what sort of local policies are developing to deal with social exclusion and poverty. The CD-Rom accompanying the book features a series of 2000 pictures from seventeen cities, as well as 126 thematic maps, interviews with established scholars and literature reviews. Individual chapters are linked to the CD-Rom through an extensive cross-referencing system.

Autor

Yuri Kazepov is Professor of Urban Sociology and Compared Welfare Systems at the University of Urbino, Italy. Since the early 1990s, he has been involved as national partner or as coordinator in several EU funded projects on urban poverty and segregation, local social policy, welfare reforms and activation policy. He is also the secretary of RC21 Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9781405121323
• ISBN-10: 1405121327
• Artikelnr.: 24247955

Rezensionen

"Cities of Europe is a unique publication in two senses.First, it brings together a remarkable group of leading urbanscholars to produce an in-depth examination of contemporaryEuropean cities that is unrivalled in the breadth and depth of itsanalysis. Second, it is a highly innovative publication, using CDROM technology to add extra dimensions to our understandingvisually and through interviews with many of the contributors tothe volume. As a result ordinary books about cities will now seemsomewhat threadbare in comparison to Cities of Europe. It isa major contribution both to our understanding of cities and ofcontemporary European society and culture."
Michael Harloe, University of Salford, UK.

"The scientific cooperation

that produced Cities ofEurope demonstrates that the European Union entails more thanmarket integration. In identifying a distinctive European cityideal-type, this collection turns a Eurocratic alphabet soup ofresearch projects -- ESOPO, URBEX, UGIS, EUREX -- into a tastybroth of thoughtful insights about contemporary urban socialproblems. American urbanists will derive theoretical sustenancefrom the introductory essays, and, despite the famine of urbanpolicy in the US, can feast upon the variety of state interventionsin European cities."
Hilary Silver, Brown University, Providence,US.

"Unmercifully vexing to urban scholars is the gap between thetexts that they produce and the myriad ways in which the city isactually experienced. With its wonderful CD-Rom, Cities ofEurope engages the reader in closing the breach."
Robert A. Beauregard
Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New York,US

"This valuable compendium provides strong essays by majorEuropean scholars on social divisions, spatiality, and policiesthat clarify post-Fordist/postwelfare European cities, and a CD-ROMwith supporting materials and 2,000 images of relevant places."Choice

"Valuable to our knowledge about urban sociology.Blackwell has a long tradition of publishing high-quality books inits 'Studies in Urban and Social Change'series."
Geographical Review