ABSTRACT
This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns of urban deprivation and social exclusion. These processes, they contend, are creating new patterns of social division and new forms of regulation and control.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|54 pages
Framing the City
chapter 2|14 pages
The Entrepreneurial City
part II|56 pages
Managing and Measuring City Life
chapter 7|16 pages
Violence, Space and Gender
chapter 8|11 pages
Challenging Perceptions
part III|51 pages
New Forms of Regulation: Partnership and Empowerment
chapter 9|12 pages
Hegemony and Regime in Urban Governance
chapter 11|13 pages
Policing Late Modernity
chapter 12|13 pages
Poverty and Partnership in the Third European Poverty Programme
part IV|39 pages
The Politics of Exclusion and Resistance