Cities of Europe: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangement and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements and the Challenge to ... Cohesion (Studies in Urban and Social Change) - Hardcover

9781405121330: Cities of Europe: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangement and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangements and the Challenge to ... Cohesion (Studies in Urban and Social Change)

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ISBN 10: 1405121335 ISBN 13: 9781405121330

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 2004

"Cities of Europe" is a unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities. It is a unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities. This work focuses on the interplay between segregation, social exclusion and governance issues in these cities. It takes a comparative approach by highlighting the specifics of European cities vis-a-vis other urban contexts and analysing the intra-European differences. The CD-ROM features a series of 2,000 photographs from seventeen cities (Amsterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, Berlin, Birmingham, Brussels, Bucharest, Helsinki, London, Milan, Naples, New York, Paris, Rotterdam, Tirana, Turin, and Utrecht). It also features 126 thematic maps, interviews with established scholars, and literature reviews. The book and the CD-ROM are linked through an extensive cross-referencing system.

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About the Author

Yuri Kazepov is Professor of Urban Sociology and Compared Welfare Systems at the University of Urbino, Italy. Since the early 1990s, he has been involved as national partner or as coordinator in several EU funded projects on urban poverty and segregation, local social policy, welfare reforms and activation policy. He is also the secretary of RC21 Research Committee on Urban and Regional Development of the International Sociological Association.

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Cities of Europe is a unique combination of book and CD-Rom examining the effects of changing contexts on the spatial and political arrangements of western European cities.

Comprising a series of contributions by well known scholars from the field of urban studies, the book makes an important contribution to debates about the nature of current socio-economic transformations, the tensions to which they are giving rise, and how western European urban societies are dealing with them. Individual chapters discuss issues such as the distinctive identity of these cities, whether or not segregation is emerging, and what sort of local policies are developing to deal with social exclusion and poverty.

The CD-Rom accompanying the book features a series of 2000 pictures from seventeen cities, as well as 126 thematic maps, interviews with established scholars and literature reviews. Individual chapters are linked to the CD-Rom through an extensive cross-referencing system.

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