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Title

Phoenix cities : the fall and rise of great industrial cities / Anne Power, Jörg Plöger and Astrid Winkler.

Publication

Bristol : Policy Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Power, Anne
• Plöger, Jörg
• Winkler, Astrid
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Description

xx, 412 p. : col. ill., col. maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"How did Europe react? How did the US? How different were their responses? This book looks closely at the recovery trajectories of seven European cities from very different regions of the European Union. Their dramatic decline, intense recovery efforts and progress on the ground reinforce the significance of public underpinning in times of crisis. Innovative enterprises, new-style city leadership, special neighbourhood programmes and skills development are all explored. The US experience, whereby cities were largely left to their own devices, produced a slower, more uncertain recovery trajectory. This book will provide much that is original and promising to all those wanting to understand the ground-level realities of urban change and progress."--Page 4 of cover.

Subject

• Urban renewal > Europe > Case studies
• City planning > Europe > Case studies
• Deindustrialization > Europe > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-399) and index.

Contents

Part One:. tale of seven cities -- one. Introduction: what are ẁeak market cities'? -- two. Industrial giants: emerging on the back of history -- three. Change of direction: political turmoil and a ferment of new ideas -- four. Neighbourhood interventions: can small scale make a difference in big cities? -- Part Two:. Learning from 50 years of boom and bust: seven European case studies -- Introduction -- five. Leipzig -- gsix. Bremen -- seven. Sheffield -- eight. Belfast -- nine. Bilbao -- ten. Torino -- eleven. Saint-Etienne -- Part Three:. Towards a recovery framework -- twelve. Measuring the recovery of weak market cities -- Part Four:. Urban industrial decline and post-industrial recovery initiatives: what can European cities learn from the US? -- thirteen. How do US weak market cities compare with Europe? -- fourteen. Will the US cities recover? -- fifteen. Lessons for Europe -- Part Five:. Conclusions -- sixteen. What have the European cities taught us? Where does the future lie?

ISBN

• 9781847426833
• 1847426832

OCLC

• 475456026
• SCSB-10683248

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library