City of Revolution

Restructuring Manchester
Herausgeber: Peck, Jamie; Ward, Kevin

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a critical account of one of Europe's most celebrated examples of urban transformation, getting beneath the hype to ask what has really changed in the 'new' Manchester.. The first comprehensive account of contemporary political and economic change in Manchester.. Explores the costs and consequences of making the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial or 'entrepreneurial' city, with broad implications for other major cities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780719058882
• ISBN-10: 0719058880
• Artikelnr.: 21680235

Autorenporträt

Jamie Peck is Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kevin Ward is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Manchester

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 1. Placing Manchester
Jamie Peck and Kevin Ward 2. Global Manchester: From globaliser to globalised
Peter Dicken 3. Macunian ways: Politics of regeneration
Brian Robson 4. Economic transitions: Restructuring local labour markets
Benito Giordano and Laura Twomey 5. Entrepreneurial turns: Municipal socialism and after
Steve Quilley 6. Olympic dreams: Visions of partnership
Allan Cochrane, Jamie Peck and Adam Tickell 7. Metropolitan manoeuvres: Making Greater Manchester
Iain Deas and Kevin Ward 8. Bomb sites: Politics of opportunity
Adam Holden 9. City building: Redevelopment in Manchester
Gwyndaf Williams 10. Regional tensions: Constructing institutional cohesion?
Martin Jones and Gordon Macleod 11. Poor Manchester: Old problems and new deals
Dean Herd and Terry Patterson 12. Hypocritical city: Cycles of urban exclusion
Rosemary Mellor Bibliography