Transforming Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social Tranformation

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 6
TABLES......Page 8
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 9
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 12
THE THEMES OF THE VOLUME......Page 14
Restructuring employment and restructuring cities......Page 15
Globalisation, post-Fordist cities and social exclusion......Page 16
Governance, control and urban policies......Page 18
The partnership approach to governance......Page 20
THE CHAPTERS......Page 22
CONCLUSION......Page 27
1 CONTESTED CITIES: Social process and spatial form......Page 30
SOME THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES......Page 38
Narrating the entrepreneurial city/region......Page 39
Emplotting the rise of the entrepreneurial city......Page 42
 RE-DESIGNING URBAN GOVERNANCE......Page 43
CONTEXTUALISING THE ENTREPRENEURIAL CITY/REGION......Page 44
EXPLAINING THE RISE (AND FALL?) OF THE ENTREPRENEURIAL CITY......Page 47
NOTES......Page 49
THE POST-WAR BOOM AND THE CLASSIC WELFARE STATE......Page 52
CONRADICTIONS OF THE FORDIST WELFARE STATE......Page 55
POST-FORDISM: A NEW FORM OF REGULATION OR DEEPER CRISIS?......Page 58
THE GLOBAL CITY......Page 59
WORKFARE AND THE ‘HOLLOWED OUT’ STATE......Page 61
NOTES......Page 63
THE CITY OF MANCHESTER......Page 66
Phase I: 1984–9......Page 67
Phase II: 1989–94......Page 69
Local partnership......Page 71
The inner city neighbourhoods......Page 72
The cool revolution......Page 73
Analysis......Page 74
NOTES......Page 77
INTRODUCTION......Page 82
THE DUAL CITY IDEA......Page 83
THE REPRESENTATION OF GLASGOW AS A DUAL CITY......Page 85
THE GEOGRAPHY OF POVERTY IN STRATHCLYDE......Page 90
CONCLUSION......Page 92
‘RACE’, ETHNICITY AND HOUSING INEQUALITIES: THE KEY DEBATES......Page 96
SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS AND HOUSING DIFFERENTIALS......Page 98
THEORISING ETHNIC DIFFERENTIALS IN  POSITION......Page 100
ETHNIC DIFFERENTIALS IN HOUSING QUALITY......Page 105
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS......Page 106
NOTE......Page 107
New administrative criminologists......Page 108
Left realists......Page 109
The family violence approach......Page 110
Radical feminists......Page 111
OVERALL LEVEL OF VIOLENCE......Page 112
GENDER AND AGE RELATION OF OVERALL VIOLENCE......Page 113
THE GENDERED DISTRIBUTION OF THE LOCALITY OF VIOLENCE......Page 115
INTER- AND INTRA-GENDER DISTRIBUTION OF VIOLENCE BY LOCALITY......Page 116
SEVERITY OF VIOLENCE BY GENDER......Page 117
THE RELATION SHIP BETWEEN VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS......Page 118
VIOLENCE BETWEEN HUSBANDS AND WIVES/BOY FRIENDS AND GIRL FRIENDS......Page 120
Summary of findings......Page 121
Conclusion......Page 122
NOTE......Page 123
RIVERSIDE......Page 124
PERCEPTIONS O F NEIGHBOURLINESS AND ‘COMMUNITY’ ON RIVERSIDE......Page 127
CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES......Page 131
CONCLUSION......Page 133
NOTE......Page 134
INTRODUCTION......Page 138
Neo-Gramscian theories of hegemony......Page 139
Neo-pluralist regime theory......Page 141
Comparisons and empirical implications......Page 142
URBAN GOVERNANCE IN BIRMINGHAM......Page 144
THE FORM AND DIRECTION OF URBAN GOVERNANCE......Page 146
CONCLUSIONS......Page 148
URBAN POLICY AND SOCIAL POLARISATION......Page 150
HEALTH PROMOTION AND ‘HEALTHY CITIES’......Page 151
PLYMOUTH, URBAN REGENERATION AND THE ‘HEALTHY CITY’......Page 153
HEALTH, THE ECONOMY AND POWER IN THE CITY......Page 158
INTRODUCTION......Page 162
Home Office initiatives on ‘partnerships against crime’ and ‘community safety’......Page 163
The future of police authorities and consultation with the public......Page 165
Radical Totalitarianism and the ‘surveillance society’......Page 166
Sceptical Pluralism......Page 167
Community safety strategy for Middleshire: an officer vision of inter-agency corporatism......Page 168
Changes in community consultation in Middleshire in the mid-1990s: the politicised response to fears of the the ‘democratic deficit’ .........Page 170
Community safety as a late modern movement?......Page 171
ANTI-POVERTY STRATEGIES......Page 174
THE LIVERPOOL ANTI-POVERTY STRATEGY......Page 175
TOWARDS THE CONCEPT OF PARTNERSHIP......Page 176
ESTABLISHING PARTNERSHIPS IN LIVERPOOL......Page 178
LESSONS TO BE LEARNT......Page 181
NOTES......Page 185
INTRODUCTION......Page 188
PACIFIC PLACE, VANCOUVER......Page 189
YERBA BUENA, SAN FRANCISCO......Page 192
BIRMINGHAM......Page 194
CONCLUSIONS......Page 197
INTRODUCTION......Page 200
Religious education and collective worship......Page 202
The racialisation of city politics and the demands of ethno-religious groups......Page 204
Channels of communication: community liaison and consultation......Page 206
Requesting local authority support for a self-help project......Page 207
Reacting to changes in main : stream educational provision......Page 208
CONCLUSION......Page 209
NOTES......Page 210
THE GROWTH OF POVERTY AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION......Page 212
The reshaping of the welfare system and public services......Page 213
From poverty to social exclusion?......Page 214
Political......Page 215
Excluded communities and local democracy......Page 216
Urban regeneration......Page 217
Local anti-poverty strategies......Page 220
Public services, social exclusion and local democracy......Page 221
CONCLUSION: SOCIAL EXCLUSION, LOCAL DEMOCRACY AND THE LOCAL STATE......Page 223
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 226
INDEX......Page 250