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  • Social Infrastructure in Neighbourhoods and Cities

    Studying the Facilities That Sustain Community, Social Networks, and Trust

    by Peter Dirksmeier, Angelina Göb, Liza Griffin, Kay Pallaris, Hannah Widmer, Lee Crookes, Beth Perry, Irene Manzini Ceinar, Regan Koch, Liz Cox, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika S. Svendsen, Michelle L. Johnson, Laura Landau, David Trouille, Michael DeLand, Alasdair Jones, Sophie Yarker, Luke Billingham, Alison Stennng, Olivia Theocharides-Feldman, Julia King, David Prytherch, Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiro, Mave Blackman, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Lucy Natarajan, Myfanwy Taylor, John Tomaney, Gesine Tuitjer, Leonie Tuitjer, Anna-Lisa Müller, Ersilia Verlinghieri, Rachel Aldred, Asa Thomas, Harriet Larrington-Spencer, Salene Schloffel-Armstrong, David Conradson, Owen Garling, Matthew Wolfe, Eric Klinenberg ...
    From parks and libraries to pubs and schools, social infrastructures are the everyday places that bring people together, support community life, and foster connection. As interest in the concept grows, this timely and accessible edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of social infrastructure—its origins, development, and practical impact.Packed with innovative case studies from the UK, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Commons, Citizenship and Power

    Reclaiming the Margins

    by Fabrizio Barca, Sébastien Bourdin, Lowri Cunnington Wynn, Julie Froud, Paolo Gerbaudo, Ayhan Kaya, Alexandros Kioupkiolis, Anna Krasteva, Danny MacKinnon, Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet, Sarah McKinley, Andrea Membretti, Andy Pike, Stella Rodrigues Lallement, John Tomaney, André Torre, Karel Williams, Sanne Velthuis ...
    Series series Civil Society and Social Change
    Since the 2010s, populism and illiberal politics have been on the rise. Demagogue leaders preach simplified rhetoric to vilify the powerless, polarising city and rural areas and sparking such shocking events as the US insurrection on 6th January 2021.This interdisciplinary book argues for a politics of representativity and accountability to help transform people’s experiences, showing that where ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Planning Practice

    Critical Perspectives from the UK

    Edited by Jessica Ferm, John Tomaney ...
    Planning Practice: Critical Perspectives from the UK provides the only comprehensive overview of contemporary planning practice in the UK. Drawing on contributions from leading researchers in the field, it examines the tools, contexts and outcomes of planning practice. Part I examines planning processes and tools, and the extent to which theory and practice diverge, covering plan-making, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure

    by Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower, John Tomaney ...
    Infrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages with city governance and infrastructure provision, identifying its wider and longer-term implications for urban and regional development, politics and policy.Proposing a more people-oriented approach to ... Read more

    $42.29 USD

  • A Region in Transition

    North East England at the Millennium

    by John Tomaney, Neil Ward ...
    Series series Urban and Regional Planning and Development Series
    The UK has now joined a Europe-wide trend towards more devolved forms of government (e.g. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland Assemblies). In the context of this general trend towards regionalizm as a focus for public policy and as a source of cultural and political identity, an interdisciplinary team from Newcastle University combine to analyze how this affects the North East of England. There ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Behind the Myth of European Union

    Propects for Cohesion

    Edited by Ash Amin, John Tomaney ...
    The vision of the original arhitects of the European Community was to create a Europe of economic prosperity and social harmony. Economic integration has come ever closer, but sustained growth and a reduction in social disparities seen as far away as ever. This book examines the prospects for the real cohesion in Europe and find that, far from promroting it, many of the Community's current ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Handbook of Local and Regional Development

    Edited by Andy Pike, Andres Rodriguez-Pose, John Tomaney ...
    The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope of this Handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the politics and policy of how we think about and practise local and regional development, encouraging dialogue across the disciplinary barriers between notions of ‘local and ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Social infrastructure and left behind places

    by John Tomaney, Maeve Blackman, Lucy Natarajan, Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Myfanwy Taylor ...
    Series series Regional Studies Policy Impact Books
    This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in ‘left-behind places’. Such places, typically once flourishing industrial communities that have been excluded from recent economic growth, now attract academic and policy attention as sites of a political backlash against globalisation and liberal democracy. The book focuses on the role of social infrastructure as a ... Read more

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  • Public Management Reform

    A Comparative Analysis - Into The Age of Austerity

    by Christopher Pollitt, Geert Bouckaert ...
    Since the third edition of this authoritative volume, most of Western Europe and North America have entered an era of austerity which has pervasive effects on programmes of public management reform. Even in Australasia extensive measures of fiscal restraint have been implemented. In this fourth edition the basic structure of the book has been retained but there has been a line-by-line rewriting, ... Read more

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  • Trade Unions

    Resurgence or Demise?

    Edited by Sue Fernie, David Metcalf ...
    Series series The Future of Trade Unions in Britain
    This book features original research underpinned with theory drawn from economics, organization theory, history and social psychology. The authors deliver a comprehensive analysis of trade unions’ prospects in the new millennium as well as case studies which deal with topical issues such as:the reasons for the loss of five million members in the 1980s and 1990sthe way in which unions’ own ... Read more

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  • Representing Workers

    Trade Union Recognition and Membership in Britain

    Edited by Howard Gospel, Stephen Wood ...
    Series series The Future of Trade Unions in Britain
    Employment relations are at a crossroad. Historically, trade union channels in advanced economies have dominated worker representation, but with the decline in union membership other forms of representation are becoming increasingly significant.This timely book is the result of significant research addressing key issues underlying these developments. A group of internationally-renowned employment ... Read more

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  • The Co-operative Advantage

    Edited by Ed Mayo ...
    Britain needs to nurture a new approach for economic success. Economic change needs to be achieved in ways that are more inclusive in terms of society and sustainable and resilient in terms of the natural environment. One ingredient for this is to harness innovation trends that encourage far stronger doses of economic collaboration. We call this the co-operative advantage. ... Read more

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