Understanding Urban Policy

A Critical Introduction

AvAllan Cochrane

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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This extensive review of urban policy explores the interaction of urban policy with changing perspectives on urban life and social welfare. An extensive review of urban policy since the 1960s.Examines a broad range of issues, such as race, economic regeneration and competitiveness, managing dangerous places, community and managerialism.The theme-based structure provides a new and innovative approach to the subject.Written in a clear, accessible style with pedagogic features to appeal to students from a range of disciplines.

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Utgivningsdatum:2006-12-01
Mått:173 x 248 x 13 mm
Vikt:354 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9780631211211

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Allan Cochrane is Professor of Public Policy at the The Open University. His previous publications include Comparing Welfare States (editor, second edition, 2000), Rethinking the Region (1998), and A Global World? Reordering Political Space (editor, 1995).

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"An immensely enjoyable book, bringing a valuable historical perspective to bear and written in a critical but lucid style... it will challenge and enlighten its readers." Paul Burton, University of Bristol

Innehållsförteckning

1. What is Urban Policy?. 2. Exploring the Roots: ‘Race’, Disorder, and Poverty.3. Managerialism and the City.4. The Meaning(s) of Community.5. Managing Disorderly Places.6. Competitiveness, the Market and Urban Entrepreneurialism.7. Taking the Cultural Turn.8. Neo-liberalism and the Globalisation of Urban Policy.9. Reshaping Welfare, Re-imagining Urban Policy.References.Index