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Abstract
This collection considers the role of long-term urban planning in the development of cities, covering a range of North American and European cities, and focusing on Belfast's social, economic and political developments.
The major cities of the West are characterised by division, uneven development and unequal distribution of jobs. In Belfast these general Western urban characteristics are extended and heightened by association with a long-standing political crisis and low-intensity conflict.
The authors integrate global debates on urban development and summarise contemporary theories on cities and their future. An assortment of interventions and delivery mechanisms are considered, and among the key topics covered are urban economies and social exclusion; the planning of city regions; the sustainable city; urban regeneration; the role of culture in remaking cities; and the future governance of cities.
'A complex and multifaceted study of the development, regeneration and management of cities'
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Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| List of Figures | vi | ||
| List of Tables | vi | ||
| Foreword | viii | ||
| Introduction | x | ||
| Visioning Beyond Division: The Case of Belfast | xii | ||
| The Source of this Book | xvi | ||
| Notes | xvii | ||
| 1 Understanding the Contemporary City | 3 | ||
| The End of Keynes | 4 | ||
| Welfarism Under Threat | 6 | ||
| A New Production System | 7 | ||
| Post-Industrialism: 'From Welders to Waiters'? | 10 | ||
| Disorganised Capitalism | 13 | ||
| The Urban and Post-modernity | 14 | ||
| Implications for the Social Production of Space | 17 | ||
| The Particularity of Place | 25 | ||
| Researching the Urban in Northern Ireland | 27 | ||
| Notes | 27 | ||
| 2 The Urban Economy and Social Exclusion: The Case of Belfast | 34 | ||
| The Belfast Urban Economy: Regional Context | 36 | ||
| 3 The Future Planning of City Regions | 61 | ||
| From the 1960s to the 1990s: How Much is Different? | 64 | ||
| Deconcentration: A Fact of Urban Life | 66 | ||
| The Nonplace Urban Realm: Here at Last? | 67 | ||
| A Global Urban Hierarchy | 69 | ||
| Flows, Corridors and Blue Bananas | 71 | ||
| The Central Contradiction of Regional Planning | 72 | ||
| The Relevance for Belfast | 74 | ||
| Notes | 76 | ||
| 4 The Just City and the Efficient City | 79 | ||
| City Neighbourhoods | 84 | ||
| Notes | 89 | ||
| 5 Sustainable Cities | 90 | ||
| The Difficult Goal of Sustainable Cities | 92 | ||
| Defining the Sustainable City | 94 | ||
| The Sustainable City: The US experience | 96 | ||
| Locating the Urban in a Regional Context | 98 | ||
| Conclusion | 100 | ||
| Notes | 101 | ||
| 6 Urban Regeneration: Lessons from Europe and the UK | 104 | ||
| Lessons from Europe - the Rise of the Entrepreneurial City | 104 | ||
| European Cities Towards 2000 | 106 | ||
| Lessons from Urban Regeneration in the UK | 109 | ||
| The New Urban Entrepreneurialism 1979-92 | 110 | ||
| The Impact of Urban Entrepreneurialism | 111 | ||
| Future Policy Issues | 113 | ||
| 7 Urban Regeneration: The New Policy Agenda | 116 | ||
| Changes in the Policy Context: The Urban Problem: Changes in Definition | 117 | ||
| Competitive Bidding | 118 | ||
| The Single Regeneration Budget | 119 | ||
| Revision of the Single Regeneration Budget | 122 | ||
| City Pride: An Initiative for Strategic Thinking? | 122 | ||
| Changes in Funding | 123 | ||
| Alternative Agendas in Britain | 123 | ||
| The View from Scotland | 124 | ||
| The European Dimension | 125 | ||
| Urban Trends in Europe | 127 | ||
| The Europeanisation of Urban Policy | 130 | ||
| The US Experience 1950s-1990s | 132 | ||
| Similarities Between UK and US Urban Policy | 136 | ||
| US Urban Policy Now | 140 | ||
| Urban Policy: What Way Forward? | 140 | ||
| Notes | 142 | ||
| 8 The Role of Culture in Remaking Cities | 151 | ||
| The Interlocking Crises of Cities | 152 | ||
| Cities Cannot Think in Nineteenth-Century Forms about Twenty-first-Century Contexts | 154 | ||
| The Sources of Visioning | 155 | ||
| Five Models of Visioning | 157 | ||
| How to Vision? | 159 | ||
| Recruit, Recognise and Renew Leadership | 162 | ||
| Notes | 163 | ||
| 9 The Role of Culture in the Regeneration of a Divided City: The Case of Belfast | 164 | ||
| Creating the Post-Industrial Belfast? | 164 | ||
| Social and Sectarian Division | 165 | ||
| A Tale of Two Cities: Downtown versus Neighbourhoods? | 167 | ||
| Consumption Over Investment? | 168 | ||
| The Role of Arts and Culture in Belfast's Regeneration | 169 | ||
| Culture in a Divided City | 177 | ||
| Notes | 179 | ||
| 10 The Future Governance of Cities | 183 | ||
| The Broad Context | 183 | ||
| Rethinking Urban Governance: Three Models | 184 | ||
| Three Examples from North East England | 189 | ||
| Building Urban Institutional Capacity | 192 | ||
| Notes | 192 | ||
| 11 Belfast: A Partnership Approach to Local Governance | 194 | ||
| Northern Ireland and Belfast: The Government Context | 195 | ||
| The Partnership Approach in Belfast | 199 | ||
| Variety of Partnerships in Belfast | 201 | ||
| Common Features of Belfast Partnerships | 202 | ||
| Problems with Belfast's Partnerships | 203 | ||
| The Future of the Partnership Approach in Local Governance | 204 | ||
| Notes | 206 | ||
| 12 Conclusion: The Development of Cities and the Future of Belfast | 207 | ||
| Changed Times: Changed Theory | 207 | ||
| The Urban Problem | 208 | ||
| Urban Regeneration: Contradictions and Dilemmas | 211 | ||
| Alternative Principles | 215 | ||
| Conceptualisation | 217 | ||
| Process and Implementation | 221 | ||
| The European Context | 226 | ||
| Final Comments | 229 | ||
| Notes | 231 | ||
| Notes on Contributors | 236 | ||
| Index | 238 | ||
| accessible city, concept of, 216 | 216 | ||
| accountability, in traditional governance model, 184-5 | 184 | ||
| Action for Cities [DoE][ | 104 | ||
| Action for Cities [DoE][ 104 | 104 | ||
| Action for Cities [DoE][ 118 | 118 | ||
| active citizenship 208 | 208 | ||
| Adelaide 158 | 158 | ||
| agency | 229 |