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Author Pinson, Gilles

Title Debating the Neoliberal City
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Debating the neoliberal city thesis; From neoliberalism to neoliberal urbanism; Content, merits and limitations of a thesis; The chapters; Bibliography; Chapter 1 Varieties of capitalism: What can we learn from the study of urban firms?; Introduction; Neoliberal city, the post-Fordist world: The quest for big narratives; Studying big urban firms: Theoretical challenges and problems of method.; What we can learn from the study of urban firms
ConclusionNotes; References; Chapter 2 Making up the neoliberal city: The role of urban market actors; Introduction; Markets and cities: Unfolding the complexity of market logics ; Analyzing cities-market relationships through the lenses of market actors; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Regulatory capitalism, the changing nature of urban planning and the limits of neoliberalism: Lessons from London's South Bank; Introduction; The rise of regulatory capitalism and the changing nature of development planning; Regenerating London's South Bank; Conclusion; Notes; References
Chapter 4 The pre-histories of neoliberal urbanism in the United StatesIntroduction; First Take: Redlining maps and the Chicago school connection; Second Take: Planned shrinkage and benign neglect; Third Take: Urban triage revisited in post-Katrina New Orleans; Fourth Take: Planned shrinkage after the perfect storm (Cleveland); Conclusion: The unwritten history of neoliberal urbanism; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Greening the neoliberal city?: Urban sustainability and selective neoliberalization in Manchester and Nantes; Introduction
The emergence of urban sustainability: Environmentalism, competitiveness and coalition-building The selectiveness of urban sustainability: The case of eco-neighbourhood project; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Neoliberalism and the European city: Reshaping the competitiveness/social cohesion nexus; Introduction; Economic competitiveness and social cohesion: A further discussion; Attractiveness: Keeping global and local flows together; Rising social inequality; A new social morphology; The challenge of multi-ethnicity; Conclusion: The end of the European city as we know it?
Bibliography ReferencesChapter 7 State entrepreneurialism in urban China: A critique of the neoliberal city; Introduction; State entrepreneurialism in the process of neoliberalization ; Historical origin of market transition in China; The path to state entrepreneurialism ; The political economic foundation and characteristics of accumulation; The "business model" of state entrepreneurialism ; How state entrepreneurialism maintains structural coherence ; State entrepreneurialism for operating the spatial fix beyond the national state
Notes Prospects of state entrepreneurialism: A possible return to Keynesian principles?
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Subject Urban economics.
Neoliberalism.
Urban policy.
Neoliberalism.
Urban economics.
Urban policy.
Form Electronic book
Author Pinson, Gilles
Journel, Christelle Morel
ISBN 9781317154211
1317154215