Debating the Neoliberal City

The neoliberal city? thesis has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies. It helps to explain both the ongoing transformation of urban policies and the socio-spatial effects of these policies within cities and highlights the prominent role of cities in the new geography of capitalism. Bringing together leadin

List of contents

Introduction: debating the neoliberal city thesis 1. Varieties of capitalism: what can learn from the study of urban firms? 2. Making up the neoliberal city: the role of urban market actors 3. Regulatory capitalism, the changing nature of urban planning and the limits of neoliberalism: lessons from London’s South Bank 4. The pre-histories of neoliberal urbanism in the United States 5. Greening the neoliberal city? Urban sustainability and selective neoliberalization in Manchester and Nantes 6. Neoliberalism and the European city: reshaping the competitiveness/social cohesion nexus 7. State entrepreneurialism in urban China: a critique of the neoliberal city 8. State-led real-estate boosterism and the breakdown of the Spanish urban model 9. Neoliberalization is not enough: French urban development corporations and the limits of neoliberalization theories

About the author

Gilles Pinson is Professor of Political Science at the Sciences Po Bordeaux, Centre Emile Durkheim, France.
Christelle Morel Journel is Senior Lecturer in Geography at the Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne, France.

Summary

The neoliberal city thesis has become a key structuring analytical framework in the field of urban studies. It helps to explain both the ongoing transformation of urban policies and the socio-spatial effects of these policies within cities and highlights the prominent role of cities in the new geography of capitalism. Bringing together leadin

Product details

• Authors: Christelle Morel Jo, Christelle Morel Journel, Gilles Pinson
• Assisted by: Morel Journel Christelle (Editor), Pinson Gilles (Editor), Christelle Morel Journel (Editor), Journel Christelle Morel (Editor), Gilles Pinson (Editor), Pinson Gilles (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2016
• EAN: 9781472459572
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-5957-2
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Politics & government, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Politics and government, Human Geography, Urban communities, Settlement, urban and rural geography, City and town planning: architectural aspects