City of Revolution Restructuring Manchester

by Peck, Jamie; Ward, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780719058882
• ISBN10: 0719058880
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-29
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

This book provides a comprehensive, reflective and critical analysis of the far-reaching process of urban transformation, searching beneath the hype to expose the true character of the 'new Manchester'. Has Manchester engineered an urban renaissance, having finally turned its back on the grimy factory economy? Or is it on a slow-motion slide into the post-industrial sludge of economic insecurity and social polarization? Drawing on the work of leading researchers and commentators in the field, this collection provides answers to these and other questions concerning Manchester's changing political economy.

Author Biography

Jamie Peck is Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Kevin Ward is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

List of plates and figures	viii
List of tables and boxes	x
List of contributors	xiv
Preface	xiv
Abbreviations	xvi
Placing Manchester	1	(17)
Jamie Peck
Kevin Ward
Tales of transformation	9	(9)
Global Manchester: from globaliser to globalised	18	(16)
Peter Dicken
Shifting global competition	23	(3)
Geopolitical environment	26	(2)
Changing corporate strategies	28	(4)
From globaliser to globalised	32	(2)
Mancunian ways: the politics of regeneration	34	(16)
Brian Robson
Urban visions	36	(2)
Delivering regeneration	38	(5)
Partnership and networking	43	(3)
Turns and transitions	46	(4)
Economic transitions: restructuring local labour markets	50	(26)
Benito Giordano
Laura Twomey
Changing employment	52	(10)
Forms of unemployment	62	(14)
Entrepreneurial turns: municipal socialism and after	76	(19)
Steve Quilley
Manchester's new urban left	77	(7)
Entrepreneurial turns?	84	(7)
Continuities and caveats	91	(4)
Olympic dreams: visions of partnership	95	(21)
Allan Cochrane
Jamie Peck
Adam Tickell
Driving the dream	96	(5)
Making it happen	101	(5)
Politics of spectacle	106	(7)
Playing Olympic games	113	(3)
Metropolitan manoeuvres: making Greater Manchester	116	(17)
Iain Deas
Kevin Ward
Regeneration unbound	121	(3)
MIDAS touch?	124	(2)
Marketing Manchester	126	(5)
Remaking metropolitan governance	131	(2)
Bomb sites: the politics of opportunity	133	(22)
Adam Holden
Managing crisis as opportunity	134	(6)
Designs on Manchester	140	(8)
Heart of the city	148	(2)
Explosive entrepreneurialism	150	(5)
City building: developing Manchester's core	155	(21)
Gwyndaf Williams
Building metropolitan cohesion	156	(2)
Planning the core	158	(1)
Framing city centre development	159	(7)
Delivering a strategic focus	166	(6)
Flagship development	172	(3)
New urban landmarks	175	(1)
Regional tensions: constructing institutional cohesion?	176	(14)
Martin Jones
Gordon MacLeod
Mapping Regional Development Agencies	178	(2)
New regionalism, North West style	180	(4)
Democratic renewal?	184	(4)
Economic governance or political mobilisation?	188	(2)
Poor Manchester: old problems and new deals	190	(24)
Dean Herd
Terry Patterson
Poverty politics	192	(3)
New Labour, New Deals	195	(6)
City Pride and welfare-to-work	201	(10)
Proud, but still poor	211	(3)
Hypocritical city: cycles of urban exclusion	214	(22)
Rosemary Mellor
Consuming Manchester	217	(4)
City-centre businesses	221	(9)
Excluding the poor	230	(3)
A just city?	233	(3)
Bibliography	236	(17)
Index	253