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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458954303321

Autore

Power Anne

Titolo

Jigsaw cities : Big places, small spaces / / Anne Power and John Houghton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK : , : Policy, , 2007

©2007

ISBN

1-4473-0263-X

1-281-74153-1

9786611741532

1-84742-233-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (279 p.)

Collana

CASE studies on poverty, place, and policy

Altri autori (Persone)

HoughtonJohn <1978->

Disciplina

307.7609424/96

Soggetti

Kommunalpolitik

Stadtentwicklung

Sociology, Urban

POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Regional Planning

SOCIAL SCIENCE - Sociology - Urban

Sociologie urbaine - Angleterre - Birmingham

Sociology, Urban - England - Birmingham

Case studies.

Electronic books.

Grossbritannien

England Birmingham

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-253) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; JIGSAW CITIES; Contents; List of tables, figures and photographs; Preface; 1. Introducing Jigsaw cities; 2. Jigsaws and Lego sets; 3. Breaking up the jigsaw; 4. Building the New Jerusalem -- vision and reality; 5. Cities bounce back -- piecing communities together again; 6. Britain's cities today: a progress report; 7. Britain's cities of yesterday and tomorrow; 8. Smart cities work; 9. Future cities: piecing the jigsaw together; Afterword: the urban jungle or urban jigsaw?; Notes and references; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Looking at major British cities, using Birmingham as a case study, this title explores Britain's intensely urban and increasingly global communities as interlocking pieces of a complex jigsaw, which are hard to see apart yet they are deeply unequal.