Cities in Transition: New Challenges, New Responsibilities

✍ Scribed by Bernhard Blanke, Randall Smith (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Series: Anglo-German Foundation for The Study of Industrial Society
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
20/40 Vision — Urban Futures to Avoid and Urban Futures to Admire....Pages 7-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
The Politics of Interdependence — Risk and Uncertainty in the City-Region....Pages 19-35
Commentary on Murray Stewart’s Thesis....Pages 37-50
Identity, Community and Polity — Thinking about the Future in Bristol....Pages 51-66
Identities, Communities and Policies — Cities on the Threshold of a New Era....Pages 67-78
The Dual City or the City of Many Parts? Rethinking Differences in Cities in Transition....Pages 79-92
Socio-Economic Exclusion and the Stability of the Urban Social Order....Pages 93-121
Industrial Past and Urban Future in the Ruhr....Pages 123-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Local City Structures under Pressure to Change....Pages 137-153
European Union Policies and Funds — the Role of Urban Government in England....Pages 155-167
Defining Innovative Potential in City Regions....Pages 169-180
Local Capacity in Bristol — Tentative Steps towards Institutional Thickness....Pages 181-197
Capacity for Action at the Local Level....Pages 199-214
Changing Cities — Transforming Socio-Ecological Relations in Bristol and Brussels....Pages 215-242
Implementing Sustainable Development at the Local and Regional Level....Pages 243-252
Challenges to Urban Policy: Modernization and the Mobilization of Local Resources in the Twentyfirst Century....Pages 253-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-272

✦ Subjects

International Economics; Sociology, general; Urban Studies/Sociology