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#SBIB:316.334.5U20 --- Sociologie van stad (buurt, wijk, community, stadsvernieuwing)

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European cities are at the centre of social, political and economic changes in Western Europe. This book proposes a new research agenda in urban sociology and politics applying primarily to European cities, in particular those that together make up the urban structure of Europe: a fabric of older cities of over 100,000 inhabitants, regional capitals and smaller state capitals. The contributors develop an analytical framework which views cities as local societies, and as collective factors and site for modes of governance. The three parts of the book examine the economics of cities, the social structures, and the modes and processes of governance. Each chapter comprises a comparison across several countries and examines critically the book's central theoretical perspective. This is not a book about the making of a Europe of cities but rather about how some cities can take advantage of their changing global and European environment.

Sociology of environment --- Europe --- Cities and towns --- Villes --- #SBIB:022.IOS --- #SBIB:316.334.5U20 --- #SBIB:35H1350 --- 711.4 --- Europa --- -Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociology, Urban --- Sociologie van stad (buurt, wijk, community, stadsvernieuwing) --- Organisatie en beleid: lokale besturen: algemeen --- Stedenbouw --- -Sociologie van stad (buurt, wijk, community, stadsvernieuwing) --- Global cities --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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Sociology of environment --- 316.334.56 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U20 --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban sociology --- Cities and towns --- Stadssociologie--(algemeen) --- Sociologie van stad (buurt, wijk, community, stadsvernieuwing) --- Sociology, Urban. --- 316.334.56 Stadssociologie--(algemeen)

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For half a century America has had one dominant vision of how its metropolitan areas ought to grow and develop. This vision, best described as unlimited low-density sprawl, encompasses personal and social goals that most Americans cherish: a home in the suburbs, a car, good schools, and responsive local government. While Americans have been overwhelmingly successful in achieving these goals, that success has generated a host of growth-related problems, including intensive traffic congestion, air pollution, rising taxes for infrastructure, loss of open space, and the relegation of many poor households and minorities to destitute inner-city neighborhoods. With the long-run viability of American society in danger, America is in desperate need of a new vision for metropolitan growth. In this book, Anthony Downs identifies growth-related problems and examines current efforts to control growth. He explains that individual suburban governments have reacted with policies intended to manage local growth; but those policies taken together have actually aggravated problems at the regional level. The most dangerous result of growth management policies is that they help perpetuate the concentration of very poor households in depressed neighborhoods in big cities and older suburbs. These neighborhoods are riddled with exploding rates of crime and violence, increased numbers of children growing up in poverty, poor-quality public education, and many workers excluded from the mainstream work force. Downs asserts that these problems undermine social cohesion and economic efficiency throughout the nation, yet many Americans fail to recognize how serious they are. He shows that as suburbs develop, their residents come to believe that their welfare no longer depends upon the economic and social health of central cities. Suburbanites feel emotionally detached from cities or hostile to cities' fiscal and social problems even though they are partly responsible for creating those problems. New Visions for Metropolitan America examines the effects of growth management in communities that have tried to alter the course of urban growth. It also analyzes several alternatives for metropolitan growth - alternatives that might reduce the problems that have arisen from the pursuit of unlimited low-density development. Downs's analysis focuses on the relationship between the suburbs and the central cities, and identifies the policies likely to be most effective in helping to resolve growth-related problems.

Social geography --- Economic geography --- United States --- Cities and towns --- Metropolitan areas --- Urban policy --- Villes --- Agglomérations urbaines --- Politique urbaine --- Growth. --- Croissance --- #SBIB:316.334.5U20 --- -Urban policy --- -Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- City planning --- Urban renewal --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Sociologie van stad (buurt, wijk, community, stadsvernieuwing) --- Growth --- Communities - Urban Groups --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- -Sociologie van stad (buurt, wijk, community, stadsvernieuwing) --- Agglomérations urbaines --- United States of America

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This collection examines the profound transformations that have characterised cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyses ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and cooperation are realised in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns of urban deprivation and social exclusion. These processes, they contend, are creating new patterns of social division and new forms of regulation an

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