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Cities as Political Objects - Historical Evolution, Analytical Categorisations and Institutional Challenges of Metropolitanisation (Hardcover)
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Cities as Political Objects - Historical Evolution, Analytical Categorisations and Institutional Challenges of Metropolitanisation (Hardcover)
Series: Cities series
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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.
Hure, C. Parnet, R. Payre, C. Pin, P. Prat, K. Zimmermann
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