| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Library Editions: Urban Studies |
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Routledge library editions. Urban studies.
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| Contents |
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Urban Problems in Western Europe: A Postscript -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- The historical process of urban development -- Forces for urban revival: employment -- People -- Policy implications -- Structure of the book -- 2 Background and the use of Functional Urban Regions -- Functional Urban Regions -- FURs and spatial disparities -- FURs and residential segregation |
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Separating decentralization from declineFURs as labour markets -- Selection of FURs for analysis -- Technical Appendix: Chapter 2 -- 3 Problems of urban decline and growth: a review -- Systematic studies of European urban development -- Further evidence on stages of urban growth -- Population or employment change -- The role of demographic factors -- Decentralization and urban decline: what is urban decline? -- Forms of urban decline -- Urban decline and industrial decline; or deindustrialization as international industrial restructuring |
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The causes of urban declineSpatial restructuring and industrial restructuring -- The macroeconomic context of restructuring -- Urban decline as a manifestation of underlying economic and social problems -- Comparison with other diagnoses of the causes of urban decline -- 4 Urban areas in the EC: problems of decline and growth 1971 รข#x80;#x93; 84 -- Measuring population change -- Measuring 'urban decline' and 'urban growth' problems -- The variables -- The results -- Changes through time -- Technical Appendix: Chapter 4 -- 5 The analysis of case studies |
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The questionnaire surveyPopulation -- Migration and natural change -- Population age structure -- Employment -- More general patterns -- Unemployment -- Residential segregation -- Housing and families -- Quality of life and environmental indicators -- 6 Growth and decline: the range of European urban experience -- Population change -- Migration and natural change -- Age structure -- Employment -- Other factors -- 7 Urban problems and patterns of change -- The forces for change: decentralization -- The forces for change: deindustrialization |
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The forces for change: agricultural restructuringThe forces for change: European integration and changing peripheralization -- Urban problems -- Problems of decline and growth -- The relationship between urban and regional problems -- Pointers to future patterns of urban development -- 8 A review of urban policy -- Policy: background -- Policy: the administrative structure -- The effectiveness of policies -- The role of national policies with 'anti-urban' bias -- Direction of economic activity -- National urban policy development -- 9 Policy implications |
| Notes |
""European urban policy background"" |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Urban policy -- European Economic Community countries
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Community development, Urban -- European Economic Community countries
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Urban renewal -- European Economic Community countries
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Community development, Urban
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Economic history
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Urban policy
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Urban renewal
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| SUBJECT |
European Economic Community countries -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045812
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| Subject |
European Economic Community countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hay, Dennis G
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| ISBN |
9781351585408 |
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1351585401 |
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