Michael J. Rustin

London's Turning (eBook, ePUB)

The Making of Thames Gateway
Redaktion: Cohen, Philip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Gateway plan, this volume examines the impact of urban planning and demographic change on East London's material and social environment. It also examines the immediate and longer term prospects for the Thames Gateway project both in relation to the 'Olympics effect' and the growth of new forms of regionalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351921435
• Artikelnr.: 49377820

Autorenporträt

Professor Philip Cohen is based at the Department of Urban Studies and Professor Michael J. Rustin, Department of Sociology London East Research Institute, University of East London, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Editorial introduction
Philip Cohen and Michael J. Rustin; Part 1 Big Pictures
Small Details: Ex-ports: the laboratory role of London's docklands
Han Meyer; Smokestack: the industrial history of Thames Gateway
John Marriott; 120 years of regeneration
from East London to the Thames Gateway: fluctuations of housing type and city form
William Mann; Daring to plan? Concepts and models of urban regeneration in Thames Gateway
Michael Keith; Thames Gateway oxymorons: some reflections on 'sustainable communities' and neoliberal governance
Massimo De Angelis; Forcing the market
forging community: culture as social construction in the Thames gateway
Andrew Calcutt; Stuff happens: telling the story and doing the business in the making of Thames Gateway
Philip Cohen. Part 2 Case Studies in Urban Change: City to sea: some socio-demographic impacts of change in East London
Tim Butler
Chris Hamnett
Mark Ramsden and Sadiq Mir; Moving to a better place? Geographies of aspiration and anxiety in the Thames Gateway
Paul Watt; Homing in on housing
Penny Bernstock; 'Alright on the night'? Envisioning a 'night time economy' in the Thames Gateway
Karina Berzins and Iain MacRury; From bedsit-land to 'cultural hub': re-generating Southend-on-Sea
Gareth Millington; The Thames Gateway bridge: a new 'solution' to an old problem?
Andrew Blake; The airport next door; London City airport - regeneration
communities and networks
Iain MacRury; Involving local communities in the Thames Gateway developments
Alice Sampson; Blues sky over Bluewater?
Michael Edwards; After London's turning: prospects and legacies for Thames Gateway
Philip Cohen and Miichael J.Rustin; Index.