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Cities as Political Objects

Cities as Political Objects

Historical Evolution, Analytical Categorisations and Institutional Challenges of Metropolitanisation
Alistai Cole, Payre Renaud (dir.), Cities as Political Objects. Historical Evolution, Analytical Categorisations and Institutional Challenges of Metropolitanisation, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar Publishing, coll. « Cities series », 2016, 320 p., ISBN : 9781784719890.
Notice publiée le 24 février 2017

Présentation de l'éditeur

Focusing on the city’s role as the nexus for new forms of relationships between politics, economics and society, this fascinating book views the city as a political phenomena. Its chapters unravel the city’s plural histories, contested political, legal and administrative boundaries, and its policy-making capacity in the context of multi-level and market pressures.

Accommodating numerous approaches drawn from a variety of European countries and metropolitan settings, contributors make extensive use of case studies in order to both interpret the variety of processes of metropolitanisation at work over the past few decades and provide insight into the various conceptual and theoretical approaches that the social sciences – and the political sciences in particular – have adopted to explain this phenomenon. This book both studies cities that have developed their own forms of governance, with tailored institutions, a large policy-making capability and sometimes a new democratic legitimacy, yet also offers an alternative understanding of cities as objects of public policy; the intended targets of the development of European-level or national urban policies.

Students of comparative politics, urban studies and European studies will welcome the mix of conceptual, comparative and case study based approaches that this book encompasses. Practitioners will also benefit from the chance to avail themselves of cutting edge research.

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Auteurs

Alistai Cole (dir.)

Professor of Comparative Politics.

Payre Renaud (dir.)

Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po Lyon, France.

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Lieu

Londres

Paris

Madrid

Rotterdam

Barcelone

Milan

Nice

Bruxelles

Lyon

Europe

Marseille

France

Royaume-Uni

Allemagne

Belgique

Espagne

Italie

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