A Tale Of Two Cities: Global Change, Local Feeling and Everday Life in the North of England

by Evans,Karen

• ISBN13: 9780415138284
• ISBN10: 0415138280
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-04-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A Tale of Two Citiesis a study of two post-Fordist cities in the North of England and of the texture of every-day life within them. It explores the hopes and fears and the present pre-occupations of young professionals, the unemployed, young people, the elderly, ethnic minorities and gays and lesbians in Manchester and Sheffield. Throughout, the book draws on an international range of theory from Raymond Williams to John Logan and Harvey Molotch in order to understand the trajectories of local development in these two superficially similar but actually very distinct cities.

Table of Contents

List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Recognising Local Difference in North of England Cities: The 'Structure of Feeling' in Manchester and Sheffield	p. 3
Dirty Old Towns: The Pre-Industrial and Industrial Histories of Manchester and Sheffield	p. 34
'This Ruddy Recession': Post-Fordism in Manchester and Sheffield	p. 60
Going to Work: The Daily Struggle	p. 95
Shop 'Til, You Drop: The 'Nice Shops' and the Markets in Manchester and Sheffield	p. 115
On Our Uppers: Poverty and Homelessness in Manchester and Sheffield	p. 163
'Out on the Town': Manchester's Gay Village	p. 180
'White City': Ethnicity and Racial Difference in Manchester and Sheffield	p. 198
Men's Towns: Women's Adaptive Strategies in Manchester and Sheffield	p. 225
Pensioned Off: The Senior Citizens of Manchester and Sheffield	p. 242
The Urban Other: Children and Young Men in Public Space in Manchester and Sheffield	p. 262
Contested Visions of the City and Different Life Projects in the De-Industrialised North	p. 289
Notes	p. 315
Bibliography	p. 358
Name Index	p. 377
Place Index	p. 382
Subject Index	p. 387
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