Cities in Transition New Challenges, New Responsibilities

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

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume explores a range of current problems faced by cities in Germany and England while reflecting on constructive strategies for enhancing the quality of life for the citizens of twenty-first century urban environments. The chapters of the book are based on papers given at a symposium organized by the Universities of Bristol and Hannover in 1997 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of twinning between the two cities.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Notes on the Contributors......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Plates......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Foreword......Page 14
1 Introduction......Page 16
Part I The Urban Future......Page 20
2 – 20/40 Vision – Urban Futures to Avoid and Urban Futures to Admire......Page 22
Part II Local Issues and Global Implications......Page 32
3 – The Politics of Interdependence – Risk and Uncertainty in the City-Region......Page 34
4 – Commentary on Murray Stewart’s Thesis......Page 52
5 – Identity, Community and Polity – Thinking about the Future in Bristol......Page 66
6 – Identities, Communities and Policies – Cities on the Threshold of a New Era......Page 82
7 – The Dual City or the City of Many Parts? Rethinking Differences in Cities in Transition......Page 94
8 – Socio-Economic Exclusion and the Stability of the Urban Social Order......Page 108
9 – Industrial Past and Urban Future in the Ruhr......Page 138
Part III Global Concerns and Local Strategies......Page 150
10 – Local City Structures under Pressure to Change......Page 152
11 – European Union Policies and Funds – the Role of Urban Government in England......Page 170
12 – Defining Innovative Potential in City Regions......Page 184
13 – Local Capacity in Bristol – Tentative Steps towards Institutional Thickness......Page 196
14 – Capacity for Action at the Local Level......Page 214
15 – Changing Cities – Transforming Socio-Ecological Relations in Bristol and Brussels......Page 230
16 – Implementing Sustainable Development at the Local and Regional Level......Page 258
17 – Challenges to Urban Policy: Modernization and the Mobilization of Local Resources in the Twenty-first Century......Page 268
C......Page 280
E......Page 281
G......Page 282
L......Page 283
P......Page 284
S......Page 285
W......Page 286
Z......Page 287