Edited by Alistair Cole, Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po Lyon, Aisling Healy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Triangle (UMR CNRS 5206) and Christelle Morel Journel, Assistant Professor of Geography, EVS-Isthme (UMR CNRS 5600), Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France

• Contents:1 Introduction to the role of urban narratives: governing the(re)making of cities 1Alistair Cole, Aisling Healy and Christelle Morel Journel2 Confronting the Pittsburgh narrative: renaissance, renewaland the tension of authenticity 17Sabina Deitrick and Michael R. Glass3 Saint-Étienne: from the modest to the creative city or theongoing search for a convincing urban narrative 31Christelle Morel Journel and Georges Gay4 Rescaling urban entrepreneurialism: England’s NorthernPowerhouse as a multi-city economic narrative 48Danny MacKinnon5 ‘Braddock America’: building a narrative on a mayor’s charisma 64Christelle Morel Journel and Aisling Healy6 Socio-genesis of a private government: Greater Lyon’snarrative of the ‘metropolitan governance’ of economicdevelopment policies 82Aisling Healy7 The ‘Smart City’ between urban narrative and emptysignifier: the case of Hong Kong 100Alistair Cole, Calvin Lai Ming Tsun, Dionysios Stivas and Emilie Tran8 “Witness to history”: narratives of resistance andresilience in Lyon and Pittsburgh 123Dan HollandReferences 137Index

Edited by Alistair Cole, Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po Lyon, Aisling Healy, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Triangle (UMR CNRS 5206) and Christelle Morel Journel, Assistant Professor of Geography, EVS-Isthme (UMR CNRS 5600), Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Etienne, France

• Contents:1 Introduction to the role of urban narratives: governing the(re)making of cities 1Alistair Cole, Aisling Healy and Christelle Morel Journel2 Confronting the Pittsburgh narrative: renaissance, renewaland the tension of authenticity 17Sabina Deitrick and Michael R. Glass3 Saint-Étienne: from the modest to the creative city or theongoing search for a convincing urban narrative 31Christelle Morel Journel and Georges Gay4 Rescaling urban entrepreneurialism: England’s NorthernPowerhouse as a multi-city economic narrative 48Danny MacKinnon5 ‘Braddock America’: building a narrative on a mayor’s charisma 64Christelle Morel Journel and Aisling Healy6 Socio-genesis of a private government: Greater Lyon’snarrative of the ‘metropolitan governance’ of economicdevelopment policies 82Aisling Healy7 The ‘Smart City’ between urban narrative and emptysignifier: the case of Hong Kong 100Alistair Cole, Calvin Lai Ming Tsun, Dionysios Stivas and Emilie Tran8 “Witness to history”: narratives of resistance andresilience in Lyon and Pittsburgh 123Dan HollandReferences 137Index