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Transforming Glasgow : beyond the post-industrial city /

Using a wide-range of interdisciplinary perspectives which examine the diverse issues of urban policy, regeneration and economic and social change, this text explores the transition of Glasgow from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kintrea, Keith (Editor), Madgin, Rebecca (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2020.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of maps, tables, figures and boxes
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • Introduction: transforming post-industrial Glasgow
  • moving beyond the epic and the toxic
  • Part I
  • 1. The policy discourses that shaped the 'transformation' of Glasgow in the later 20th century: 'overspill', 'redeployment' and the 'culture of enterprise'
  • 2. Escaping the shadow of the upas tree
  • 3. The new political economy of city-regionalism: renewed steps in Glasgow
  • 4. Stopped in its tracks? Transport's contribution to Glasgow's development
  • Part II
  • 5. Living in the urban renaissance? Opportunity and challenge for 21st-century Glasgow
  • 6. A sick city in a sick country
  • 7. Dynamic housing transformations: following the money
  • 8. 'New' migrations transforming the city: East European settlement in Glasgow
  • 9. Changing places and evolving activism: communities in post-industrial Glasgow
  • Part III
  • 10. What once was old is new again: placemaking and transformational regeneration in Glasgow
  • 11. A place for urban conservation? The changing values of Glasgow's built heritage
  • 12. Revisiting the creative city: culture and regeneration in post-industrial Glasgow
  • 13. Our 'Dear Green Place': Glasgow's transformation from industrial powerhouse to sustainable city
  • Conclusion: beyond the post-industrial
  • narratives of time and place
  • Index.