Cities as Political Objects: Historical Evolution, Analytical Categorisations and Institutional Challenges of Metropolitanisation (Cities series) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1784719897 ISBN 13: 9781784719890

Verlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2016

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Focusing on the city's role as the nexus for new forms of relationships between politics, economics and society, this fascinating book views the city as a political phenomena. Its chapters unravel the city's plural histories, contested political, legal and administrative boundaries, and its policy-making capacity in the context of multi-level and market pressures.

Accommodating numerous approaches drawn from a variety of European countries and metropolitan settings, contributors make extensive use of case studies in order to both interpret the variety of processes of metropolitanisation at work over the past few decades and provide insight into the various conceptual and theoretical approaches that the social sciences - and the political sciences in particular - have adopted to explain this phenomenon. This book both studies cities that have developed their own forms of governance, with tailored institutions, a large policy making capability and sometimes a new democratic legitimacy, yet also offers an alternative understanding of cities as objects of public policy; the intended targets of the development of European-level or national urban policies.

Students of comparative politics, urban studies and European studies will welcome the mix of conceptual, comparative and case study based approaches that this book encompasses. Practitioners will also benefit from the chance to avail themselves of cutting edge research.

Contributors include: F. Artioli, S. Cadiou, J. Caillosse, J. Carpenter, A. Cole, S. Couperus, A. Dowling, D. Galimberti, I. Gordon, H. Heinelt, M. Huré, C. Parnet, R. Payre, C. Pin, P. Prat, K. Zimmermann

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Edited by Alistair Cole, Professor of Political Science, Department of Government and International Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China and Renaud Payre, Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po Lyon, France

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784719897
• ISBN 13: 9781784719890
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Herausgeber: Cole Alistair, Payre Renaud
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