Cities for a Small Continent

International Handbook of City Recovery

Anne Power (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2016
Policy Press (Verlag)
978-1-4473-2753-0 (ISBN)

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Through varied case studies this original book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities over 10 years, to present a compelling framework showing how Europe’s post-industrial cities are striving to combat environmental and social unravelling.

This original book builds on the author’s research in Phoenix cities to present a vivid story of Europe’s post-industrial cities pre- and post- financial crisis. The book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities, to present a compelling framework showing how Europe’s cities are striving to combat environmental and social unravelling.

Anne Power has worked and lived in inner city communities since the 1970s. She studied at Manchester, LSE, and in America. She worked with Martin Luther King’s End Slums campaign. She speaks Spanish, French, Italian and German, teaches and researches at the LSE and is an active participant in European city networks. A member of the Early Action Task Force, she served on the government’s Sustainable Development Commission from 1999-2009.

Foreword ~ ?Richard Rogers;
Cities in a Crowded Continent;
Divided and United Europe;
Grit and Vision;
Struggle and Strive;
Threats and Opportunities;
Over scale and under scale;
The Power of Social Innovation;
Shoots of growth in US Cities ~ Bruce Katz and Alex Jones;
New Ways Out of the Woods.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	CASE Studies on Poverty, Place and Policy
Zusatzinfo	15 Tables, black and white; 32 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Bristol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4473-2753-5 / 1447327535
ISBN-13	978-1-4473-2753-0 / 9781447327530
Zustand	Neuware