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City matters: Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance

Martin Boddy and Michael Parkinson

Abstract

This book provides a review of the findings of the largest-ever programme of cities research in the UK, the Economic and Social Research Council's ‘Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion programme’. Chapters present the findings of this wide-ranging programme, organised around the themes of competitiveness, social cohesion, and the role of policy and governance. The book develops understanding of key processes, issues, and concepts critical to cities and urban change, and examines a large body of evidence on a wide range of policy issues at the heart of current debates about the performance of c ... More

Keywords: competitiveness, social cohesion, role of policy, role of governance, cities, urban change, urban renaissance, cities research

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2004 Print ISBN-13: 9781861344458
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781861344458.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Martin Boddy, editor

Michael Parkinson, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of tables and figures

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on contributors

One Introduction

Michael Parkinson, and Martin Boddy

Part One: Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance

Two Sources of city prosperity and cohesion: the case of Glasgow and Edinburgh

Ivan Turok, Nick Bailey, Rowland Atkinson, Glen Bramley, Iain Docherty, Ken Gibb, Robina Goodlad, Annette Hastings, Keith Kintrea, Karryn Kirk, Joe Leibovitz, Bill Lever, Jimmy Morgan, and Ronan Paddison

Three Reinventing cities in a restructuring region? The rhetoric and reality of renaissance in Liverpool and Manchester

Alan Harding, Iain Deas, Richard Evans, and Stuart Wilks-Heeg

Four Competitiveness and cohesion in a prosperous city-region: the case of Bristol

Martin Boddy, Keith Bassett, Shaun French, Ron Griffiths, Christine Lambert, Andrew Leyshon, Ian Smith, Murray Stewart, and Nigel Thrift

Five London: competitiveness, cohesion and the policy environment

Ian Gordon, Belinda Brown, Nick Buck, Peter Hall, Michael Harloe, Mark Kleinman, Karen O’Reilly, Gareth Potts, Laura Smethurst, and Jo Sparkes

Part Two: Competitiveness and urban change

Six Urban growth and competitiveness in Britain: a long-run perspective

Barry Moore, and Iain Begg

Seven Migration, residential preferences and the changing environment of cities

Tony Champion, and Tania Fisher

Eight Cities are not isolated states

Paul Cheshire, Stefano Magrini, Francesca Medda, and Vassilis Monastiriotis

Part Three: Competitiveness, innovation and the knowledge economy

Nine Competitiveness as cohesion: social capital and the knowledge economy

Philip Cooke

Ten Innovation clusters and competitive cities in the UK and Europe

James Simmie

Part Four: Housing, property and economic performance

Eleven The role of housing in city economic performance

Geoffrey Meen, and Mark Andrew

Twelve Economic structures, urban responses: framing and negotiating urban property development

Simon Guy, and John Henneberry

Part Five: Space, place and social cohesion

Thirteen Does spatial concentration of disadvantage contribute to social exclusion?

Nick Buck, and Ian Gordon

Fourteen The ‘good’ suburb as an urban asset in enhancing a city’s competitiveness

Peter Halfpenny, Nadia Joanne Britton, Fiona Devine, and Rosemary Mellor

Fifteen The middle class and the future of London

Tim Butler

Part Six: Ethnicity, enterprise and social cohesion

Sixteen Whose hidden assets? Inner-city potential for social cohesion and economic competitiveness

Jo Foord, and Norman Ginsburg

Seventeen Ethnic minority enterprise in an inner-city context: the case of the independent restaurant sector in Birmingham

Trevor Jones, Monder Ram, and Tahir Abbas

Eighteen Youth employment, racialised gendering and school–work transitions

Sophie Bowlby, Sally Lloyd Evans, and Clare Roche

Part Seven: Leadership, governance and social capital

Nineteen Leadership and partnership in urban governance: evidence from London, Bristol and Glasgow

David Sweeting, Robin Hambleton, Chris Huxham, Murray Stewart, and Siv Vangen

Twenty ‘Pathways to integration’: tackling social exclusion on Merseyside

Richard Meegan

Twenty One Voluntary organisations and the generation of social capital in city politics

Gerry Stoker, Graham Smith, William Maloney, and Stephen Young

Conclusions

Twenty Two Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance

Martin Boddy, and Michael Parkinson

End Matter

Index