Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of tables and figures v
4. Foreword viii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. Notes on contributors xii
7. Introduction 1
8. Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance
9. Sources of city prosperity and cohesion: the case of Glasgow and Edinburgh 13
10. Reinventing cities in a restructuring region? The rhetoric and reality of renaissance in Liverpool and Manchester 33
11. Competitiveness and cohesion in a prosperous city-region: the case of Bristol 51
12. London: competitiveness, cohesion and the policy environment 71
13. Competitiveness and urban change
14. Urban growth and competitiveness in Britain: a long-run perspective 93
15. Migration, residential preferences and the changing environment of cities 111
16. Cities are not isolated states 129
17. Competitiveness, innovation and the knowledge economy
18. Competitiveness as cohesion: social capital and the knowledge economy 153
19. Innovation clusters and competitive cities in the UK and Europe 171
20. Housing, property and economic performance
21. The role of housing in city economic performance 199
22. Economic structures, urban responses: framing and negotiating urban property development 217
23. Space, place and social cohesion
24. Does spatial concentration of disadvantage contribute to social exclusion? 237
25. The ‘good’ suburb as an urban asset in enhancing a city’s competitiveness 255
26. The middle class and the future of London 269
27. Ethnicity, enterprise and social cohesion
28. Whose hidden assets? Inner-city potential for social cohesion and economic competitiveness 287
29. Ethnic minority enterprise in an inner-city context: the case of the independent restaurant sector in Birmingham 307
30. Youth employment, racialised gendering and school–work transitions 323
31. Leadership, governance and social capital
32. Leadership and partnership in urban governance: evidence from London, Bristol and Glasgow 349
33. ‘Pathways to integration’: tackling social exclusion on Merseyside 367
34. Voluntary organisations and the generation of social capital in city politics 389
35. Conclusions
36. Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance 407
37. Index 433