Claire Edwards

The short guide to urban policy

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With an ever increasing proportion of the world's population inhabiting urban environments, the management of cities remains a perennial challenge for governments and policymakers. This concise, but wide-ranging text makes sense of the multiple ways in which urban issues and problems have been defined and addressed in different places at different times. From initiatives that focus on social tensions within the urban realm, to those which seek to develop cities as economic entities, the book provides an accessible discussion and critique of some of the key approaches that have characterised urban policy across the globe. Providing case studie… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Imrie, Rob

ISBN: 978-1-4473-0800-3
EAN: 9781447308003
Produktnummer: 20502588
Verlag: Policy Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 280 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 27'191 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Claire Edwards is Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork. Her teaching and research interests focus around urban policy, critical disability studies, and sociologies of health and illness. She recently completed an EU-funded project exploring the role of patients' organisations in the governance of medical knowledge. Rob Imrie is Chair of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the director of a European Research Council funded project (2013-16) investigating universal design, disability and the designed environment.